roses/thorns/blood, masks, the distance between two mirrors, spiders/webs, feathers, the moon, owls, hair and the cutting and/or taking down of hair, bleached bone, trains, the sea/shapeshifting, tattoos
You should make of these a deck: they sound runic.
I'm with you on masks, the moon, bone, trains, the sea, and shapeshifting. Thorns interest me more than roses; scars more than tattoos. Autumn and winter, especially autumn and leaves falling. (You can see why Moonwise caught me.) Underworlds; otherworlds. Shadows, I think, and senses of the past. And likewise, I can trace some of these and some I have no idea. But I'm not sure that whatever difficulties I have with Kiernan's work are because her deck and mine don't match. It's less the intrinsic symbolism than the pacing and plotting that troubled me about Low Red Moon.
Any work of fiction containing more than three or four of the above is going to have to be impressively and appallingly bad for me not to find something interesting about it.
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You should make of these a deck: they sound runic.
I'm with you on masks, the moon, bone, trains, the sea, and shapeshifting. Thorns interest me more than roses; scars more than tattoos. Autumn and winter, especially autumn and leaves falling. (You can see why Moonwise caught me.) Underworlds; otherworlds. Shadows, I think, and senses of the past. And likewise, I can trace some of these and some I have no idea. But I'm not sure that whatever difficulties I have with Kiernan's work are because her deck and mine don't match. It's less the intrinsic symbolism than the pacing and plotting that troubled me about Low Red Moon.
Any work of fiction containing more than three or four of the above is going to have to be impressively and appallingly bad for me not to find something interesting about it.
So has this ever happened?