RE: The Weave
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To give it some historical context, and to bring back the "modernity", a fitting image that kept crawling into my mind was this one:
This is Gustave Dore's 1882 engraving The Bridge of Sighs (One More Unfortunate)
While The Weave "whispers" to me as something future, being still engrossed in LeGuin's primitive(r) worlds makes me think the 1800s would work.
A good story works in any season and any era, though.
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For some reason that painting strikes me as you on the way to work 😜
Thankyou for sharing it - yes, in an extended narrative I would weave in imagery just like this painting. There was a lot of mythic, archetypal elements I really wanted to 'weave' in but in the hour before dinner I just couldn't pull it off and didn't want to waste my whole life on it.
Thanks for recognizing that it belonged in another time - that's what I wanted to achieve, not necessarily the future but a side present. I did want that old school sci fi vibe but I just lose the will to refine and edit it the way I normally would.
It's the old school, science rational objective narrator I am missing here I think. Its only upon waking to it I realize how I want to rewrite it. More Bradbury even would work.
PS. I miss your posts.
I miss writing. I should start working from home a few days soon-ishly, so I will have my commute time back some days of the week. Up to 6 hours back in my life, I won't know what to do with myself!
You can write ten posts in six hours! 😁