On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Grey Malkin <grymalkyn@gmail.com> wrote:
Strange things can throw you. Some while ago, I was reading, and enjoying,
a book set in the 7th century in Ireland.
It somewhat threw me when one of the characters referred to some place as
being a number of kilometres away.I once read a standard medieval fantasy in which a noise that the main character heard was described as being like the droning of an airplane. Which, just...no. It would be one thing if the narrator was telling the story, like, say, in The Hobbit, so that the airplane was a frame of reference for the person being told the story. But this didn't have that sort of conceit. It was just lazy writing. (And so mediocre, apparently, that I don't even remember the book or what the story was about. Just the airplane droning where it shouldn't have been.)
Laurie
As much as I loved Frozen and mainlined "Let it Go" for days, the line about "frozen fractals in the air" always trips me up because somehow I just can't imagine that the Queen of Arendelle learned advanced mathematics as part of her royal education.
Gwyn
Rain and sun shall feed me now,
and roots, and nuts, and wild things,
and rustlings in the midnight wood,
half-mad, like Myrddin, wandering.
--Terri Windling
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