bedlamsbard | (no subject) (Reply)

Looking up old, discarded chapter beginnings of Dust nets me some weird things -- I'd forgotten about this 3.5K of sheer religious meta I'd written! And the 3K of cattle-rustling! Oh, look, more meta. 2x4 to the head, seriously. I hope I'm a little more subtle than that now -- maybe I'll reuse some of this, I don't know, but it's really the opposite of subtle.

For example, this gem (Tirian to Lucy):

“Here you are,” Tirian echoes. “But here is no Aslan; here are the Kings and Queens of Summer, come to answer the prayers of ten thousand Narnians. Whether or not Aslan sent you is irrelevant, because you are the ones who are here and not he. When Narnia is saved, it will be your names that are celebrated, not his. Narnia has no reason to love Aslan, because it is not Aslan whose name has been heralded in Narnia for almost two thousand years. Aslan has no love for Narnia or ordinary Narnians; his interest is piqued only by heroes and humans and his care is capricious and willful, to be withdrawn at any opportunity.”

This was written -- oh, Christ, July of 2009. So, yeah, I hope I'm a little more subtle than that now. SHOW NOT TELL BEDLAM.