tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106243389695628804.post2403523437685772011..comments2023-05-08T04:26:41.949-04:00Comments on My Little Po-Mo: I don't even know for sure what this is part of, if anything...Froborrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08782366056731381450noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106243389695628804.post-90118844757593267902014-04-13T01:59:39.056-04:002014-04-13T01:59:39.056-04:00I know how ingratiating it sounds, but it's my...I know how ingratiating it sounds, but it's my honest, (relatively) impartial opinion that these excerpts keep improving. The gap between this one and the fairies excerpt is a lot narrower than the previous ones, however - in fact it's possible that the fairy excerpt might edge it out narrowly. Very enjoyable nevertheless, and quickly allayed any fears I might've had that you were just working out some lessons you'd learned from "The Very Soil". :)<br />A little late on the commentary again, but then again you were a week late on the Fiction Friday so I think it's forgivable. Besides, I've got two pieces to offer thanks to the week delay!<br />The first is a short story called "Anytime That Seemed Perfect", named after an Ora Lerman painting hung up in the library I work at (which was apparently absent from the internet until I <a href="http://oi57.tinypic.com/52cap1.jpg" rel="nofollow">decided to do something about it</a> just now). The full title of the painting is "Eden Is Anytime That Seemed Perfect", which I think is somewhat informative. Besides the painting I had the work of science fiction authors Robert Silverberg and Thomas Disch in mind, plus the "90's kid"-variety nostalgia craze and what it might say about how the internet's changed the way we look at the past. Thomas Ligotti was also in mind again, specifically in regard to his concept of a "Spiritus Mundi" which he views as incredibly malevolent and which I'm slightly more optimistic about. It's a little weirder than "<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/view/swcn770qy21fr4u/Production_Lines.doc" rel="nofollow">Production Lines</a>" on the surface but I think it has a lot of heart.<br />https://www.mediafire.com/?7b8k1edifji417u<br /><br />The other one is something I did for my Mythology course about an urban legend regarding Bob Dylan's "Blowin' In The Wind" being written by a high school student. It's a great story to begin with, and I think I get into some interesting stuff about what people from any generation expect to get out of having people they look up to - in that regard it's kind of related to "Production Lines".<br />https://www.mediafire.com/?8nm8hzieb85far2<br /><br />Funnily enough both pieces fall back on folk/indie music for bits of their central imagery, even though I gravitate much more heavily towards dance music!<br /><br />Anyway no obligation to like it or anything, just thought it might be nice to give something in return. If you do have anything constructive to say I'd be delighted to hear it. :)Champinesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08929355387925460784noreply@blogger.com