Friday, June 14, 2013

Fanny Burney's Big... Hat

Frances d'Arblay ('Fanny Burney') by Edward Francisco Burney.jpgWhile checking Wikipedia's June 13th information page, and as I glanced at the list of notable births on this day, the following grabbed my attention: 
considering the recent "Frank" pattern-cluster, and from that, knowing that "Fanny" is a diminutive of Francine, the feminine form of Frank.   Fanny's wiki page nearly floored me when I saw the painting of her... wearing an unmistakably BIG HAT!!  Note the following excerpt from my yesterdays post entitled T.V. Abraham RIIP, Mr. Big Hat in Plain View:  
Among the List of cast members is the following curious figure:
  • Frank Madrigal as Mr. Big Hat
For one, there`s the name Frank AGAIN, and what`s up with Mr. Big Hat... a meaningful surname considering the recent `Hattie`pattern-cluster in my June 11th post entitled, Allen Derr RIIP, Reed v. Reed and Farmer in the Derry-O. Of course Lincoln did wear a top hat.
Audd that this name would crop up now considering that the name "Fanny" has been playing on my mind.  A couple of days ago I had gone on line to Empire Theater to find out what's playing... so I can take my mom to a movie when visiting with her.  She loves 3-D movies, and so I watched the trailer for the animated movie, "Epic" https://www.empiretheatres.com/movie/trailer/18251

The Trailer reminded me of "Fanny Oakleaf", one of the little faerie books that I had written which I posted about: http://toumaiocean.blogspot.ca/search?q=fanny+oakleaf.  

 I had no idea at the time of naming this little faerie, that Fanny is a diminutive of Francine/Frank.  I was aware however that it's another word for butt.  

On reading Fanny's wiki page, I came to a particularly horrifying section entitled:

Life in France: revolution and mastectomy.  All I can say to that, is thank goodness for modern technology... namely anesthetic!!

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