Yuletide: exceeding my dreams again.
Dec. 26th, 2016 11:45 amI asked for Gérôme's painting, Suites d'un bal masqué (Duel after a Masquerade). Take a second and look at it. Isn't that a gorgeous painting? Not just the implied story, but the masterful use of color.
I got an excellent short story divided into splinters, with each of the various witnesses preoccupied with their own concerns. The characterization of the witnesses is wonderful: each of them leaps off the page. This is a pictorial work, so the author created all those characters from scratch. The period detail is amazing, and the way that the final witness, resentfully, tells his own story wraps the splinters back together. And there are footnotes! My Yuletide has footnotes for further reading! SQUEEEEEE.
L'Abécédaire d'un duel
I also got a Madness drabble, a perfect pendant to the painting, that takes one telling detail and uses it as commentary.
Gunpowder
Happy Yuletide to me, and to all of you!
I got an excellent short story divided into splinters, with each of the various witnesses preoccupied with their own concerns. The characterization of the witnesses is wonderful: each of them leaps off the page. This is a pictorial work, so the author created all those characters from scratch. The period detail is amazing, and the way that the final witness, resentfully, tells his own story wraps the splinters back together. And there are footnotes! My Yuletide has footnotes for further reading! SQUEEEEEE.
L'Abécédaire d'un duel
I also got a Madness drabble, a perfect pendant to the painting, that takes one telling detail and uses it as commentary.
Gunpowder
Happy Yuletide to me, and to all of you!