when Lemony Snicket wrote “I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you everyday” that hurt me
Full paragraph hurts even more.
“ (…) I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where once we were so close… I will love you until your face is fogged by distant memory. I will love you no matter where you go and who you see, I will love you if you don’t marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else and I will love you if you never marry at all, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all. That is how I will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way.”
There’s a hidden level of brilliance in this moment:
Chef Boyardee is known today for his cheap out-of-the-can pasta, but in his native Italy he was a renowned expert chef. He was reduced to the face of microwaveable eateries after his death.
Sound like anyone else from this movie?
Chef Ettore Boiardi, known today as Chef Hector Boyardee, was a key player in keeping poverty struck families fed for a low price, before he ever came out with the canned pasta line. He would jar his sauce in milk bottles and provide bags of dry noodles for families in Cleveland, Ohio’s Little Italy sector. It was during the Depression, and pasta could be made in large portions at a low cost. This was the start of his venture.
After years of success, he eventually opened his canning facility, opened his restaurant “Il Giardino d’Italia” in New York, and helped feed the Allies during the war. Everyone always glazes over this part of his life, especially the Cleveland part. He lived here. He DIED here. He’s BURIED HERE. My mother took care of him at the nursing home she worked for in her early 20′s when he was ailing and spoke of nothing but the kindness he and his family radiated when they were there. Chef Boiardi was an immigrant with a dream and was always there to help those in need, because he knew what it was like to be in that position. Never let that go.
You know what I love about Breath of the Wild? They give Link such a distinct personality that’s also slightly customizable. Sometimes there are these nice options that are paired with very direct things (such as “give me those boots”) and I like to believe that the nice options are what he believes he should say to be kind but the direct options are what he’s actually thinking. He’s very much “I should be nice, but I also really don’t have time for your bullshit.”
The other great fact is that he’s got two canon personalities. Before the Calamity, he was very dutiful, more reserved, and didn’t want to upset anyone or break anyone’s expectations of him. After he woke up with no memories, he’s incredibly sociable and a bit of a flirt (can’t blame him when half of Hyrule has a crush on him). The one thing that he really retained without his memories is that he’s a total foodie which is probably one of the funniest parts of his personality.
