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[queenlua]

lavendre has a fun post up, where they've done a dissection of A Scene From Fiction That Resonated™, to try and pick apart the why/how of said resonance works

and that's such a fun idea that i'm vaguely gesturing that other dreamwidth ppl should try it out, so i can read more good posts :P

I WILL PROBABLY DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS MYSELF, TOO, just... i'm somewhat distracted atm... so all i can do now is gesture that "hi i'm gonna do this and you should too"

off the top of my head, some scenes that i think i'd personally probably find fun to write up:
* the Christmas party in Yukio Mishima's The Decay of the Angel
* the "Time Passes" chapter in To the Lighthouse
* the "You are tiring yourself, Joseph" bit in The Glass Bead Game
* any of a number of scenes from Black Leopard, Red Wolf, which i've read more recently than all these and found more puzzling so that's probably the juiciest candidate. ("hey Lua if you've read that one recently then where's the book post about it" shut up)

anyway yeah happy monday everybody

Comments

[kradeelav]

oooooh this is brilliant in a taking apart mechanics sort of way (can be paired with emotional relevance and meta relevance but still separated neatly)... it's funny, i've seen this style of narrative analysis far more in games than straight up books.

ty ty and looking forward to what you're cooking up ;)

[uskglass]

Ooooh this looks SUPER fun and I hope you do it, and now I'm thinking about what I'd do... (that chapter of To the Lighthouse is a great choice, haven't read the rest)

[lavendre]

HELL YEAH HELL YEAH

omg a party scene in The Decay of the Angel...! this sounds crunchy (and also i finally got my copy lmao)

i read Mrs. Dalloway a month or two ago and it broke my world apart; so curious to get to To The Lighthouse soon too~~

[queenlua]

(yessss lmk if you take the plunge...)

also i have never read mrs dalloway but everyone who reads it seems to have it blow up their entire world so. very curious to hear more about that from yourself at some point :P

[lavendre]

lol you might have seen this post in which case OOPS but my thoughts on Mrs. Dalloway are in here for your reading pleasure <3 and also i'm onto To The Lighthouse bc i need to know what's up with that Time Passes chapter hahaha. Woolf is so great ahhhhh

[ioplokon]

Do "Time Passes," please :)