The little foxes came out at eve to carry their bones away

[sovay]

Via cucumberseed: 16,500 years ago in Jordan, there were foxes buried in human graves. The authors of the original paper believe they might have been, if not precisely pets, then "potential domesticates . . . smaller and easier to control—although more skittish and timid—than the wolf. It seems likely that foxes could have shared a similar type of relationship with humans as wolves did, even if they were never truly domesticated." I will never make an archaeologist. I flashed on 'Uyun al-Hammam as a graveyard of kitsune: some buried in their human-shape, some in fox.

Comments

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

If I can, I will. Currently I'm fighting with another historical poem. Feel free to (i.e., please) do things with Prominence in the meantime.

Some things are definitely perking up. If I can, I will. Good hunting with the poem. If you want another set of eyes on it, I kind of owe you.

Samson and Delilah are retold as a Child ballad.

That's brilliant.

[sovay]

That's brilliant.

I recommend the collection. I have consistently bounced off Peter Dickinson as a writer of novels (although I hold out hope for his alt-historical mystery King and Joker, provided I can track it down), but City of Gold and Merlin Dreams (1988) went into my brain early.

[chomiji]

I love King and Joker, but I love most of his books, so that may not portend anything good for your enjoyment of it.

[sovay]

I love King and Joker, but I love most of his books, so that may not portend anything good for your enjoyment of it.

I'll still take recommendations—I might have been trying the wrong stuff.