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yakalskovich) wrote2009-12-17 01:27 am
yakalskovich) wrote2009-12-17 01:27 am
Can it be January already?
Not that I don't like Christmas or don't want to do sushi on New Year's Eve with the Nazgul, or anything. But really, I can't wait to properly app Urquhart (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
scots_wolf). He's moving into my brain as energetically as no charrie since Teja has done.
He's already acquired a 'theme song', a poem that he quotes in canon.
Here's the version of it that occurs in Orff's 'Carmina Burana', and this one is the Corvus Corax version.
Oh, and just to research history in order to properly evoke that world! Can you get addicted to the past?
scots_wolf). He's moving into my brain as energetically as no charrie since Teja has done.He's already acquired a 'theme song', a poem that he quotes in canon.
Here's the version of it that occurs in Orff's 'Carmina Burana', and this one is the Corvus Corax version.
Oh, and just to research history in order to properly evoke that world! Can you get addicted to the past?
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Abso-fucking-lutely.
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I am already tempted to get Urquhart involved with all the nasty that happened in the 1250s. He has ten years of backstory to fill, between 'losing his mind' at Damiette, and his final, fatal job in Cologne in 1260...
Also, I have started researching PTSD and acute trauma to get his reaction right when he finally loses it, which he will, because there's a trigger waiting for him in Milliways that is sure to send him raving at first encounter...
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Damn, I wish you could have seen the ballet version our local company did with ECC. Clashing mug wars and everything.
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But yes, that's the first part of the 'In Taverna' section of the Orff version. And as far as your local performance is concerned -- are there any parts of it on YouTube? By now, there often are. People forever link to their amateur orchestras etc. I like that, too -- the time when classical music was just a few recordings by highly professional international performers is over again. People were actually worried that the standards were getting too high, and general active music by amateurs was going under. No more, thanks to YouTube etc. -- music gets more grassroots againg.
Sorry, will stop preachifying.-
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The book that Urquhart is from was written in German and now exists in an English translation as its author, Frank Schätzing, is going mainstream internationally -- he sold the movie rights to his best-seller 'The Swarm' to Hollywood, and apparently publishers are hoping to get readers interested in his earlier books as well. 'Tod und Teufel' was his first, a medieval local whodunnit, only it's not quite a whodunnit because we know from the word go that Urquhart dunnit and who the conspirators are that hired him, just not where they are ultimately going with all that, and we follow both him and his antagonists (the protagonists of the book, that is, because Urquhart is the Bad Guy) hunting each other as the plot unfolds.
Sorry, another tl;dr comment; seems I'm in the mood for them.-
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Oooooh. I will *definitely* have to check it out, assuming the translation's a good 'un. Thanks. Death and the Devil, IIRC.
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Death and the Devil, that's right. I link to the book on amazon.co.uk from the profile page of Urquhart's character journal, which I in turn link up there.
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Heh. Icon love. I wonder what ER Eddison (he of the five-page descriptions of palaces) would have thought of that.
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If they don't serve to set the mood but interrupt the action as in the book that icon originally referred to, then it would mean that I think buying and reading more of his books wouldn't be worth it...
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And ere that was done, came a little page running to her chamber door, and when it was opened to him, stood panting from his running and said, "The king your husband bade me tell you, madam, and pray you go down to him i' the great hall. It may be ill news, I fear."
"Thou fearest, pap-face?" said the Queen. "I'll have thee whipped if thou bringest thy fears to me. Dost know aught? What's the matter?"
"The ship's much battered, O Queen. He is closeted with our Lord the King, the skipper. None dare speak else. 'Tis feared the high Admiral--"
"Feared!" cried she, swinging round for the nurse to put about her white shoulders her mantle of sendaline and cloth of silver, that shimmered at the collar with purple amethysts and was scented with cedar and galbanum and myrrh.
(end quote)
I'm sure it's a lovely cloak, but do we HAVE to know all about it at that exact moment?
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