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nightbird: Mucha illustration, young peasant holding scythe and grain (in a city by the water)
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Less is more, and I really mean that.

posted by [personal profile] nightbird at 07:05pm on 25/06/2009 under ,
I think I've realized what it is about apocalypses I love so much: protagonists are pared down to sheer human will and ingenuity against something too huge to comprehend.

In a way, it's what fascinates me about war too.

Who would have thought that ten months as a marketing copyeditor would have taught me that much about writing?

The Midwest is amazing today: the heat and the miles of thunderheads to the west and the weeds and the vines and the chain-link fences and the color palette before a storm.

I can't get the late 40's out of my head. Post-war.
Music:: "Jesus Gonna Be Here," Tom Waits
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idreamofcairo: (sunset over pyramids)

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posted by [personal profile] idreamofcairo at 12:32am on 26/06/2009
FYI this is theladyscribe from LJ (this is the Egypt blog).

And you have pinpointed precisely what is so epically fascinating about both war and apocalypse.
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nightbird: Mucha illustration, young peasant holding scythe and grain (they didn't know what else to do.)

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posted by [personal profile] nightbird at 12:35am on 26/06/2009
Hi! And it's funny, it hasn't been until recently that I realized that I've loved them both my whole life -- but the very first story I fell in love with in a bone-deep way was the Odyssey, which is a post-war post-apocalyptic world, and just -- it's never gone away.
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st_aurafina: Rainbow DNA (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] st_aurafina at 03:26am on 26/06/2009
That makes much sense - I have always felt gruesome about having a fascination for apocalyptic stories, but it's not the suffering and misery that I'm interested in, it's the way the characters throw away everything non-essential so they can survive and rebuild.
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nightbird: Mucha illustration, young peasant holding scythe and grain (little boxes)

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posted by [personal profile] nightbird at 04:08am on 26/06/2009
Yes, yes, this, absolutely this! I guess it's something about discovering what you really do need that's so engrossing.
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lilacsigil: 12 Apostles rocks, text "Rock On" (12 Apostles)

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posted by [personal profile] lilacsigil at 08:05am on 26/06/2009
I'm the complete opposite - I can't bear apocalyptic stories (and I'm not so fond of war stories either), because all I can think about is the people whose stories aren't told, who are left behind, or trampled into the mud. This is also probably why I never fantasised about living in the past - I always wanted to live in the future. I think I'm in the minority on that one, though.
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