a whole new world

so all of this talk about scheherazade on monday got me to thinking...about aladdin. i don't know if anyone else was as obsessed with that movie as i was, but let's just say i once attempted to memorize all of the words to "friend like me" - you know, the song genie sings to introduce to the audience to his awesomeness...best summed up as "EXTREME COSMIC POWER!...itty bitty living space." anyway, at the beginning of the song, genie says "now ali baba had them 40 thieves, scheherazade had a thousand tales" ....and that concludes that little nugget of info about how Disney attempted to incorporate knowledge into my third favorite movie.

alright - i have googled curiosity, and this is what i have found (after i got sidetracked and read about benjamin button for ten minutes):
Curiosity is an emotion that causes natural inquisitive behaviour such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident by observation in human and many animal species. The term can also be used to denote the behavior itself being caused by the emotion of curiosity. As this emotion represents a drive to know new things, curiosity is the fuel of science and all other disciplines of human study.
props to whoever did this entry for spelling "behaviour" in the best way ever. my favourite colour is greene.
i find it interesting that "curiosity killed the cat," but it's also responsible for fueling science and all other disciplines of human study. that's a pretty sweet reputation you have there, curiosity. a creative killer. i find that curiosity is also why i talk so much - i can just tell that people are curious about me, so i let them know without making them embarrass themselves by asking me why i continue to be such a hot mess. and of course, with out curiosity, we would cease to communicate and ask questions and learn. so basically, that cat got a raw deal, because he was probably onto something awesome.
i also decided to look up jordano bruno, because i thought jordano was an awesome name, and i'm pretty sure i'm going to start adding an o to my bf's name from now on...and then i found out that it's spelled giordano. oh well, guess i'll just have to convince jordan to spell his name giordan.
basically, he was uber smart, and interested in the universe and memory, and he was burned at the stake...i get the feeling most of the intelligent people burned at the stake were a result of low self-esteem on the part of the pope and latter-day evangelicals. like, "oh crap, that girodano dude is on to something that seems like it might be true....lets label him a heretic and burn him. promptly." and so we end up with another martyr for curiosity. damn cat killing popes.
just like how jafar wanted to kill aladdin for getting the lamp - i mean, it was ultimately curiosity that led aladdin to follow disguised jafar into the desert, just to get swallowed up by the sand tiger. then abu's greediness got them the lamp, and the desire to love jasmine got him to the palace. so, the combination of curiosity, greed, love, and of course, a genie to guide you along with his oral wisdom (bee yourself!) will bring you the best. life. ever.

so i'm still trying to find something in the three books for class that really pop out as provocative, but all i'm finding so far is a lot of things that i don't particularly want to remember. ha! but hopefully something will scandalize me sooner or later....although the future looks bleak for ong.

p.s. if you want to be taken to a dream world of magic, hop on your carpet and click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd07uvkTeKo