poor severian

Sarah Dorrance-Minch · 10 Jun 2005, 20:35 · from 2005-June.txt.gz

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From: isobelwren at yahoo.com (Sarah Dorrance-Minch)
Date: Fri Jun 10 20:35:15 2005
Subject: (urth) poor severian
In-Reply-To: <20050609011019.D77E2398D at sitemail.everyone.net>
Message-ID: <20050611033511.7158.qmail at web31905.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

--- turin <turin at HELL.COM> wrote:

> that is all i have to say. poor severian. hamlet.

Hamlet didn't have Yorick waking up and tagging along
after him half an hour after the little graveside, er,
tete a tete. Or Ophelia, although I wonder if Ophelia
would share Dorcas' hydrophobia.

I would love to see a spoof of Hamlet, starring
Severian. Now that is a holiday pantomime begging to
be written. Maybe if I can ever sneak some time away
from the children - have one nursing barnacle, one
toddler with full blown autism, which makes long
chunks of time for writing a slight bit problematic.

Of course I'd probably have to also include elements
of Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and Titus Andronicus. Hmm.

Midori/Sarah

Ah, love couldst thou and I conspire/ To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire/ Would we not break it all to bits, and then/ Remold it nearer to the heart's desire - Omar Khayyam

Reach me a gentian, give me a torch
let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower
down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness.
 - D.H. Lawrence, "Bavarian Gentians"

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