Or What You Will

He has been too many things to count. He has been a dragon with a boy on his back. He has been a scholar, a warrior, a lover, and a thief. He has been dream and dreamer. He has been a god. But “he” is in fact nothing more than a spark of idea, a character in the mind of Sylvia Harrison, 73, award-winning author of thirty novels over forty years. He has played a part in most of those novels, and in the recesses of her mind, Sylvia has conversed with him for years. But Sylvia won't live forever,...

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Sicilian_orange5 октября 2020 г.
The name Illyria came straight from Twelfth Night. And unlike Italy, Illyria is part of a peninsula that has never been united. The name as she uses it sometimes means the duchy, sometimes the whole geographic expression that is the peninsula, and sometimes is a metonym for the whole world. The names of many of the other countries came from the Bible. Shakespeare and the Bible, what impeccable sources!
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Sicilian_orange4 октября 2020 г.
History doesn’t work like a story. It rarely wraps up satisfyingly. It’s full of perpetual loose ends and dangling motifs that any writer reading it immediately wants to tug on and tie up into bows.
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Sicilian_orange4 октября 2020 г.
Second person is a strange conceit, and we don’t intend to make you go there. Some people seem to find it erotic, as it is the mode used for a lot of written pornography. Is the feeling of passivity, or of being told what you do and feel, perhaps charged for them with some subtle erotic tension of helplessness, of being swept away by events, out of control? Interesting to consider. When there’s a whole form of discourse used pretty much only for porn and experimental edgy literature, you have to think about it, question why — except that in fact nobody does seem to be asking that question.
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