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==== The Saga of Julia ==== | ==== The Saga of Julia ==== | ||
[[User:Thaeus/soj/prelude|Prelude]] | Oy, I guess I had better explain... | ||
[[User:Thaeus/soj/e1|Episode 1 - A Tia in the Road]] | |||
[[User:Thaeus/soj/e2|Episode 2 - "Umm ... Which Way is Midtown?"]] | In the fall of 1999 (nearly ten years ago!) I took an English course at university about Heroic Literature, and it was actually really, really awesome. We studied Icelandic sagas, ''Don Quixote'', ''American Psycho'' (as an anti-hero), ''Gargantua and Pantagruel'', ''The Life and Adventures of Tristam Shandy'', and other stuff I don't remember anymore. For the purpose of the course we defined a hero as a larger than life person who embodies their world, so talked about how Patrick Bateman represents the excesses and shallowness of 1980s Wall Street, or Gisli, the life and adventures of the old Norse, and so on. | ||
In the stories that play heroes straight up, they usually follow an arc: some sort of remarkable entrance into the world, a string of greater and greater successes, and then, ultimately, they go too far. Probably the most prototypical was ''Gisli's Saga'', which I almost certainly do not remember correctly. But I ''think'' what happens is that the nephews of the King of Norway do something to his relatives, so he retaliates and kills them, and as a result goes on the run. Ultimately he tries to forment a rebellion against King Harald and gets killed. | |||
So with that bubbling in my mind, plus the anti-hero of Egil, the unreliable narrator of ''American Psycho'', and the odd experiments in form of ''Tristan Shandy'', and the vague desire to do some silly writing again, I came up with the Saga of Julia. | |||
It's an MK story. I like to think the characters have their own voices, even if I haven't let them say much over the years. | |||
I'm posting this here in the desire to get back in action and finish off these stories. I'm probably going to throw out what I have and start from scratch, since I'm not who I was back then. But here it is. | |||
Yarr. | |||
* [[User:Thaeus/soj/prelude|Prelude]] | |||
* [[User:Thaeus/soj/e1|Episode 1 - A Tia in the Road]] | |||
* [[User:Thaeus/soj/e2|Episode 2 - "Umm ... Which Way is Midtown?"]] | |||
Latest revision as of 01:28, 19 June 2008
Yarr
This is a commercial for my army and my navy.
This is a rehearsal for all the empty promises I will be.
I won't let you down.
Done letting you down.
Writing
So, uh, writing. I'm going to dump stories that haven't actually gone anywhere in here.
Unfinished
The Saga of Julia
Oy, I guess I had better explain...
In the fall of 1999 (nearly ten years ago!) I took an English course at university about Heroic Literature, and it was actually really, really awesome. We studied Icelandic sagas, Don Quixote, American Psycho (as an anti-hero), Gargantua and Pantagruel, The Life and Adventures of Tristam Shandy, and other stuff I don't remember anymore. For the purpose of the course we defined a hero as a larger than life person who embodies their world, so talked about how Patrick Bateman represents the excesses and shallowness of 1980s Wall Street, or Gisli, the life and adventures of the old Norse, and so on.
In the stories that play heroes straight up, they usually follow an arc: some sort of remarkable entrance into the world, a string of greater and greater successes, and then, ultimately, they go too far. Probably the most prototypical was Gisli's Saga, which I almost certainly do not remember correctly. But I think what happens is that the nephews of the King of Norway do something to his relatives, so he retaliates and kills them, and as a result goes on the run. Ultimately he tries to forment a rebellion against King Harald and gets killed.
So with that bubbling in my mind, plus the anti-hero of Egil, the unreliable narrator of American Psycho, and the odd experiments in form of Tristan Shandy, and the vague desire to do some silly writing again, I came up with the Saga of Julia.
It's an MK story. I like to think the characters have their own voices, even if I haven't let them say much over the years.
I'm posting this here in the desire to get back in action and finish off these stories. I'm probably going to throw out what I have and start from scratch, since I'm not who I was back then. But here it is.
Yarr.