Future Echoes: Hut in the Jungle +

Son of Witz · 20 Mar 2009, 16:48 · from 2009-March.txt.gz

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From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:48:58 +0000
Subject: (urth) Future Echoes:  Hut in the Jungle +
Message-ID: <W6763720110209521237567738@webmail42>


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Adam Thornton [mailto:adam at io.com]
>Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 09:44 AM
>To: 'The Urth Mailing List'
>Subject: Re: (urth) Future Echoes:  Hut in the Jungle +
>
>
>On Mar 20, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Son of Witz wrote:
>
>> "Beside me, Dorcas plucked a water hyacinth and put it in her hair.  
>> Except for the vague spot of white on the bank some distance ahead,  
>> it was the first flower I had seen in the Garden of Endless Sleep; I  
>> looked for others, but saw none. Is it possible the flower came into  
>> being only because Dorcas reached for it? In daylight moments, I  
>> know as well as the next that such things are impossible;"
>
>So, it's not hyacinths.
>
>Oh.  Hyacinth.
>
>Um.  Anyway, so, it's not hyacinths, but as long as we're doing  
>temporally-reversed scenes, how about when the monster drowns the  
>little girl who's tossing the flower petals into the pool in the  
>Karloff _Frankenstein_?  Here we have the time reversal where Dorcas  
>is produced from the pool, and then the flower petals.
>
>I'm probably just seeing spectres.
>
>Adam


I seem to see the wispy edges of a ghost there...

~witz

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