The stalk has withered dry, my love, though our hearts shan't decay

[sovay]

I have been challenged by cucumberseed and nineweaving to write something about trees, and by phi and cucumberseed to write something about the drowning of the Doves. (I said incautiously, "The river got a taste for him.") Just making a note for myself here. Arisia is going astonishingly well, considering I functionally haven't slept since Friday.

Comments

[phi]

Arisia is going astonishingly well

Yay! I hope you were able to sleep last night.

[sovay]

I hope you were able to sleep last night.

Yes, actually! I should do more of it!

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I love how weird history is. :-)

[sovay]

I love how weird history is.

Amen. It doesn't render fiction pointless—that's a horrible reductive take on the interplay of the two—but it does occasionally make you wish fiction would step up its game a little. If reality can get away with this sort of thing . . .

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the challenges! The Doves story is wonderfully bizarre; I can't wait to see what you make of it.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I am super excited about sovay taking this one.

[sairaali.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[sovay]

The Doves story is wonderfully bizarre; I can't wait to see what you make of it.

I'm going to try. I have a lot of history to live up to! (It struck me, writing now to asakiyume: the original story is pure Iain Sinclair.)

[beowabbit]

Wow, what a fascinating story! I’d read a sentence or two before about the Doves’ type’s watery end and wondered about the back-story; thank you very much for the link!

[sovay]

I’d read a sentence or two before about the Doves’ type’s watery end and wondered about the back-story; thank you very much for the link!

You're welcome. I recognized the typeface as soon as I saw it, but I'd never heard its name or anything about its creation or its murder (which is what this kind of destruction feels like to me). It's astonishing what people do: both the original disposal, and now the bringing-back.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Very looking forward to what you can do with the drowning of the Doves!

[sovay]

Very looking forward to what you can do with the drowning of the Doves!

I just hope I can live up to it! I feel reality has set the bar very high with this one.

[rinue.livejournal.com]

I'll chime in as another person who had never heard of the drowning of the Doves; how marvelous.

[sovay]

I'll chime in as another person who had never heard of the drowning of the Doves; how marvelous.

Credit sairaali—I had no idea until they linked the Economist story, and then it became haunting.