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egypturnashThe bureaucrat fell from the sky.
...
Changing, the bureaucrat fell to the sea.
- Michael Swanwyck, Stations of the Tide
The bomb lives only as it is falling.
- Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons
"I ached to fall."
- me, in Inhatti's description.
The whole of the book lies between those two lines from Swanwyck.
The Banks line is from the epigraph to the book, a poem pretending to be written by one of the story's characters.
The self-quote is the last line of a muck character description that intentionally breaks a lot of the rules of that form.
Why do lines about falling cling to my head? Admittedly, the third one has an intentional "fallen angel" theme at times - there's a quote from Satan's monologue in Milton in her pinfo.
Is sympathy for the Devil a shamelessly teenage thing? Eternal rebel, outcast. And so so pretty.
I get pompous when I'm getting sleepy.
Twin's reappeared on Puzzlebox for a couple days in a row, now. Still bound by history, I suppose. Someone asked (her) to tell a story tonight and (she) gave a semi-mythic overview of (her) story so far, that elliptically referred to the way it really just... stopped. (She)'s gotten a little snarky due to the exile I forced on (her), I suppose.
Twin's arguably a creature who descended, too, but in (her) case it was quite by choice. And not an uncontrolled fall.
If your fall never stops, it might be an orbit.
...
Changing, the bureaucrat fell to the sea.
- Michael Swanwyck, Stations of the Tide
The bomb lives only as it is falling.
- Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons
"I ached to fall."
- me, in Inhatti's description.
The whole of the book lies between those two lines from Swanwyck.
The Banks line is from the epigraph to the book, a poem pretending to be written by one of the story's characters.
The self-quote is the last line of a muck character description that intentionally breaks a lot of the rules of that form.
Why do lines about falling cling to my head? Admittedly, the third one has an intentional "fallen angel" theme at times - there's a quote from Satan's monologue in Milton in her pinfo.
Is sympathy for the Devil a shamelessly teenage thing? Eternal rebel, outcast. And so so pretty.
I get pompous when I'm getting sleepy.
Twin's reappeared on Puzzlebox for a couple days in a row, now. Still bound by history, I suppose. Someone asked (her) to tell a story tonight and (she) gave a semi-mythic overview of (her) story so far, that elliptically referred to the way it really just... stopped. (She)'s gotten a little snarky due to the exile I forced on (her), I suppose.
Twin's arguably a creature who descended, too, but in (her) case it was quite by choice. And not an uncontrolled fall.
If your fall never stops, it might be an orbit.