jewel faces

[incandescens]

Now I know that I shouldn't have reread The Bloody Chamber, because it's tangling in my mind with concepts of the Empress Gyokumen and Professor Hwan and concepts about self-disgust and beauty and jewels and polishing spectacles and chambers where one doesn't want to go but knows that one will, and what's worse than blood to stain a key, and half a dozen things which I can't bloody see clearly, and this is annoying. (Note - check spelling of names.)

"Or perhaps it's that you want to have her?"

I haven't got a good enough fix yet to know what it wants to be.

OTOH, associating Tenpou with the Moon, as the Saiyuki tarot deck does, gives nice imagery. Interesting imagery.

I need to do Willow some time, as a companion to Sandalwood, but I keep on associating it with "and the willow shall be the very first tree / which perishes at the heart", which doesn't fit.

Associative chains are wonderful when they work, frustrating when you can't see how to make them work but can't lose the association in your head.

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Comments

[valancymay.livejournal.com]

I've started to read the book (TLATU) again; it's been so long that I'm starting over from the beginning so I don't miss anything, but it's still lovely. You have a very lyrical style.

[incandescens]

Thanks. :) I look forward to hearing your comments, and hope you continue to enjoy it.