Gratuitous poetry post, mark two.

[labellementeuse]

This one is by Clive Barker, and it's the poem on the cover of Abarat,, which I'd thouroughly recommend; I don't think it has a title, the site I found it on had it as "Preface to Abarat."


I dreamed a limitless book,
A book unbound,
Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance.

On every line there was a new horizon drawn,
New heavens supposed;
New states, new souls.

On of those souls,
Dozing through some imagined afternoon,
Dreamed these words.
And needing a hand to set them down,
Made mine.


I really like this one... not sure why. It just.. mmm. I don't know, it reads like a library. Or a book shop. Or like my bookshelves above the bunk, which I've stuffed with everythign I've read at least twice. (And I jsut redid them and have them all luvverly, too...)

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[miriamus.livejournal.com]

And you're expanding my cultural experience by posting poems! Yay! :)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm so cool. :D

ooh, I hope you come back in time to see what I just added...

What have you added? :)

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

*goes to check*

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed that. I keep wanting to write fic for it, but I have the feeling that doing justice to any future-projection fic would require inventing trips to all the islands and figuring out what's up with the key and pyramids and... stuff.

I've also predicted four main shipping camps if the fandom were to take off. *g*

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Oh? Enlighten? I've sort of steered my mind away from ships, because they'd all be trans species, which bothers me a little.

*guesses what PK's guesses woudl be* Uhm... Candy/Carrion (most obvious), Candy/Malingo, Candy/uhm, John Mischief??? and if you've eked out a fourth I'm mildly amazed, because I can't. Oh, Candy/assasin guy? forgotten the name? (They're all Candy ships because, well, ther's no-one else to ship- is there?)

Mmm, I like it a lot, but the idea of fic in it is mildly daunting, because it's one big world and it's not acessible the way, say, YW and HP are, through points of contact. It's very alien.

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

Those three (Candy/Malingo could actually be kinda cute) and Candy/Finnegan. (Finnigan?) He's evidently alive despite being buried, he's supposed to have been a real sweetheart, and he was Carrion's rival for Princess Boa.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Hmm. s'true. *ponders*

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

I think he also might be human. Well, as things go. I figure we'll see him before too long, at any rate.

I'm not stuck on any of them, myself, really. ;) Though if she doesn't stay friends with Malingo for any reason (death, falling out...) I shall be distressed. Wah. Curious about Finny, though.

Carrion (has anybody in his own universe called him Chris, and if so, have they survived, I wonder?) needs a large supplemental dose of common sense before he should be allowed to get involved with anyone. The sadism could possibly be gotten around -- either by a partner who did like it or his apparently sincere intention to drop it if they didn't -- but actually expecting the grandmother who sewed his mouth shut for using the word "love" to do something beneficial about his appearance for his bride's sake? Not working here.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I like Malingo friend-wise. He makes me laugh.

Oh, I'm sure we'll see him round.... I just hadn't connected him to Candy.

Carrion... meh. I'm going half and half on him. I'm not his greatest fan, put it like that.... on the other hand, there's something to be said for the charmingly nasty.

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

Oh, Carrion would certainly be an alarming choice, to put it mildly. But I'd feel sorry for him if he were acting in good faith (for once?) and Mater Motley spoiled it. Only I'd also think he'd been very stupid.

I ended up laughing over his sitting around in odd places whispering "Candy" over and over, though. The pathos is all very nice, and then I get this image of his subjects timidly bringing him sugar in an effort to fix things. And hopefully getting away before he notices they're there. :P