Re: 5th of November

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents montreal qc ca>]

> That, I presume, is "V for Vendetta": I've never seen it, but I
> gather it's based on an English comic book and has a tag line based
> on the rhyme Gadi quoted.

A very good comic book (er, "graphic novel", a term I assume arose as
some kind of response to societal attitudes towards "comic book"s).

Odd that I like it, too - it's rather dystopian, and I don't normally
like dystopias.  Perhaps because it's got an overall positive message
and ending despite its being so dystopian.  (I too have never seen the
movie, and it's reasonably likely I never will; so far I've found I
generally don't like movies based on books when I like the book.)

And yes, V For Vendetta - the book - does use the "Remember, remember,
the fifth of November" line, though not with enough frequency for me to
call it a tag-line.

> The rhyme is very old: it seems to go back to the early 1600s, when
> the practice of celebrating the foiling of the Guy Fawkes plot (on
> 5th November 1605) began.  The practice of lighting bonfires and
> burning effigies seems to have begun the following year, but I don't
> know if the rhyme began then.

See Sandman #75, page 15, for one theory. :-)

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