5/7/2023 0 Comments The 13 Clocks by James ThurberAn odd man named Golux meets the disguised prince and advises him to tell the duke that he will perform any task set for him, so long as the duke doesn’t ask him to retrieve 1,000 jewels. The nursemaid witch had prophesied that the one to save Saralinda from the duke would have a name that starts with X, and yet doesn’t.Ī new suitor, Prince Zorn, disguised as a minstrel called Xingu, wants to win the princess’s hand. Some were fed to the geese because they used names that started with an X. When her suitors inevitably fail, he slices them from “zatch to guggle” and feeds them to his geese. For years he’s thought up impossible tasks for the suitors of Saralinda to perform - cutting a slice of the moon, making the ocean into wine or finding objects that do not exist. The duke enjoys the last part of the curse. She cast a spell on the duke so he can’t wed the princess until her 21st birthday, he must keep her in a chamber safely away from himself, and he must give any prince the chance to seek her hand in marriage. In reality, the duke stole Saralinda as a young child from her kingly father and brought her to his castle, where he intends to eventually marry her. In a cold castle where the hands on 13 clocks have stopped moving, an evil duke pretends to be the uncle of Princess Saralinda.
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