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pjthompson) wrote2006-06-13 09:44 am
pjthompson) wrote2006-06-13 09:44 am
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Something you don't see everyday
Here's yesty's quote and the illustration. But I noticed something about this painting I'd never seen before:
The entire background is a giant face. The cave on the right is one eye pit, the shading and head of the witch is the other, the column of smoke is a nose with the two crows behind it serving as nostrils, and the cauldron and fire pit making a hellmouth. Given Victorian sensibilities about such things, I'm sure this isn't an accident. I don't think I'm just nuts. Or maybe this has been evident to everyone but me. It's even more evident when you view the picture in miniature:
In other news:
This new story, "The Heart of the Western Tide," has an unusual voice for me: omniscient and...baroque. I can't tell if the baroque style is amusing (as intended) or just plain annoying. I'm going to let it proceed, though, and not judge until it's done. It is an enormous amount of fun, intentionally over the top, but we'll see what we'll see. The voice seemed to come with the package deal as it arrived out of the dreamtime.
The right brain is a strange and marvelous place.
The entire background is a giant face. The cave on the right is one eye pit, the shading and head of the witch is the other, the column of smoke is a nose with the two crows behind it serving as nostrils, and the cauldron and fire pit making a hellmouth. Given Victorian sensibilities about such things, I'm sure this isn't an accident. I don't think I'm just nuts. Or maybe this has been evident to everyone but me. It's even more evident when you view the picture in miniature:
In other news:
This new story, "The Heart of the Western Tide," has an unusual voice for me: omniscient and...baroque. I can't tell if the baroque style is amusing (as intended) or just plain annoying. I'm going to let it proceed, though, and not judge until it's done. It is an enormous amount of fun, intentionally over the top, but we'll see what we'll see. The voice seemed to come with the package deal as it arrived out of the dreamtime.
The right brain is a strange and marvelous place.
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Er.
Never mind.
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Um.
Yeah, so neither of us heard anything. Right.
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Definitely easier to spot on the smaller picture.
Very pretty!
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That's how I noticed it in the first place. GraphicConverter makes these eensy teensy icons of the picture when you save a file with it and I looked at my desktop and said, "What's that face?"
Love your blog...
Also, do you need anyone to read "Warrior" now that it is all finished? I would really like to read it as a whole...
Julia
Re: Love your blog...
Thank you. :-)
Also, do you need anyone to read "Warrior" now that it is all finished? I would really like to read it as a whole...
It's a real funky first draft at this stage. I changed my mind several times during the writing of it (and I don't go back and fix until I've finished the first draft). So there's all sorts of cliche language and placeholders with things like [Write a chapter where X happens] and that sort of thing. And other stuff that changed and I didn't bother to put placeholders in.