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<blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 3325862" data-attributes="member: 2"><p>Great comments on everyone, thank you! My initial thoughts to your post:</p><p>[sblock]Interesting commentary. You're right that the tension and conflict are all internal, not external. </p><p></p><p>I had been shooting for a story where the self-involved dilemma of the narrator was put into perspective by the actual religious persecution suffered by the ancient idol. Revelations get made, the narrator reaches a personal epiphany about his own life, and the concept of a froglike God of Thirst running a tiny tavern as a temple gets revealed. I meant for it to sound less like a fairy tale (that was a deliberate language choice on my part) and more like a history. You're absolutely right that I wanted a story-in-a-story as well.</p><p></p><p>But I'm not dissatisfied with how it came out. For some reason, the image of the mongols carrying away the bride and someone doing the same with a bulldozer always makes me grin.</p><p></p><p>One thing, though - you mentioned rare disease people. You may be thinking of mongoloids, people born with a genetic birth defect. Mongols were the horse-riding asiatic barbarians who swept across China and western Europe a thousand years ago. Knowing that makes a big difference in whether the story makes any sense or not, and it's not necessarily obvious.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the commentary![/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Piratecat, post: 3325862, member: 2"] Great comments on everyone, thank you! My initial thoughts to your post: [sblock]Interesting commentary. You're right that the tension and conflict are all internal, not external. I had been shooting for a story where the self-involved dilemma of the narrator was put into perspective by the actual religious persecution suffered by the ancient idol. Revelations get made, the narrator reaches a personal epiphany about his own life, and the concept of a froglike God of Thirst running a tiny tavern as a temple gets revealed. I meant for it to sound less like a fairy tale (that was a deliberate language choice on my part) and more like a history. You're absolutely right that I wanted a story-in-a-story as well. But I'm not dissatisfied with how it came out. For some reason, the image of the mongols carrying away the bride and someone doing the same with a bulldozer always makes me grin. One thing, though - you mentioned rare disease people. You may be thinking of mongoloids, people born with a genetic birth defect. Mongols were the horse-riding asiatic barbarians who swept across China and western Europe a thousand years ago. Knowing that makes a big difference in whether the story makes any sense or not, and it's not necessarily obvious. Thanks for the commentary![/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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