hm hm. broadway musical music in head? bizarre.

[cimorene]

byron/shelley was at the top of the to-do list. unfortunately, that would require research. also, the fog outside is dissipating. so the other options are: dom/billy or viggorli, she-ra. technically others, but they're too far down the list.

thoughts, anyone, on byron/shelley without research? i could make it short. was thinking long, but if i did one of those inverted story structures and finally went back to 3rd p. past tense, the Tense of My Childhood, which i'm starting to miss with the kind of fierce longing that you can't express in japanese without saying "i'm lonely."

*blink blink* whew, that was random.

anyway, so i could do an end-middle-beginning structure again, or a broken randomness thing (because of the drugs) or a random shuffling up of the scenes in chronological order. roger zelazny, the second-best writer in the universe, did this to some effect in lord of light (oooooh the unspeakable impressiveness of that book) and "twenty-four views of mt fuji by hokusai," but i am aware the tense-shifts throw some of my readers. *pets readers* look, stuff in past tense happened in the past, alright?

Comments

[tamaranth2002.livejournal.com]

What do you mean, second-best? ... Let me rephrase that: if Zelazny's 2nd-best, who's best?
And if you like to play with tenses, may I recommend the utterly splendid Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks, wherein there are two narratives: one starting in shall-we-say-the-present and going forward, and one starting in the relative-past and going backwards. Until everything becomes horribly clear.
Actually, I'm now kicking myself for not asking if you'd read Zelazny when I first emailed after reading 'Tennessee'. Which is an anagram of 'Seen Tense'. The chronological structure of that was soooo baroque.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

samuel delany is best.

haha. did i write an anagram of zelazny UNKNOWINGLY? hahaha! i've never read that story by him! eep. must. go. find.

*scurries off the find zelazny*

[tamaranth2002.livejournal.com]

Gah, no, have unwittingly been MisleadingInfluence. Merely amused to find 'Tense' in 'Tennessee' (which can lead to discussion of two sorts of tense, the sexual sort and the linguistic sort).
OK, I'm easily amused. (Actually, I'm easily awoken, and sleep deprivation would explain a lot right now).
Must go and spill port over one of Orlando's shirts. It's all in a good cause, honest.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

muh? --ok.