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Re: Dragons
Posted by **fishamaphone** on Sep 14, 2013 at 7:10:37 AM:
In Reply to: Re: Dragons posted by **BlackMonk** on Sep 13, 2013 at 12:29:04 PM:
**Once, a long time ago when I was very, very, *very* small, I read a book. Now that isn't a thing that is special itself. A lot of people read books. Some of these people are big, and some of these people are small, as I was, but the simple act of reading is very normal. What made this book, what made this reading of this book, important, was that it scared me. It scared me very much. I was so afraid when I read it, that I never got to the end.
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**The story was about a boy. And it was about a dragon. And it was about a book.
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**The dragon was scary. In the pictures, he had deep, hollow eyes and deep, hollow nostrils, and a tongue that did not look like a regular tongue. And it ate people. It flew around and swallowed them up. But this was not what truly scared me when I was small.
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**The dragon, at the beginning, was in a book. He could not hurt people when he was in the book. He could only be a picture on the page. But the boy let him out. And this is what scared me.
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**The dragon could not help that he hurt people. He was a dragon, that was his job. But the boy did not have to open the book. He did not have to let the dragon out. It was his fault. He made all of those bad things happen. And when I was very small, I did not like the idea that a boy should be able to cause all of that damage by mistake.
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**That book sat on my shelf for many years, but I never read the ending. I do not know how they put the dragon back into the book. But I don't think that it's important. What's important is that there was a boy who was having fun, who was simply not thinking. And he released a dragon.
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*Were you here when I posted the address for my bandcamp page? Tommystevens.bandcamp.com
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*Everything can be streamed for free. Country Hobo is toward the end.
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*Incidentally, have you been reading a lot of Neil Gaiman's children's books recently?
I just gave the whole a listen-through... not what I was expecting :-p
I've got about five hours left of that whole "don't eat food" thing, and I'm just starting to feel the onset of delirium, so this might not be the clearest of posts I've ever made. But your music felt a lot more ambiance than concert. Like, I could definitely imagine a series of radio shows where your album is the soundtrack, the instrumentals as either location or character themes, and the lyric pieces as segues between scenes. There's a very strong sense of atmosphere, but I'm not quite sure I can put my finger on precisely what type of atmosphere it is.
Regarding Gaiman, not particularly. I like his ideas and how he treats his characters, but his prose is difficult for me to stick with after a while, so while I go for his comics and various movies and TV shows, I tend to stay away from his more traditional books. Though I did watch his episode of Doctor Who shortly before writing the above... it was more sort of a continuation of an experiment I'm doing with voice, trying to get as claustrophobically simple as possible. It's something I might want to pull out somewhere along the line with a character I'm writing, so I'm tweaking it before I get to that point. The above, however, is actually autobiographical.Followup Messages:
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