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The Lost Library exchange just wrapped up -- that's the metafictional one where you write a bit of a book or play or movie that's implied or stated to exist in another book or movie -- and it was, unsurprisingly, delightful.
I chucked two works into the fray, one straight-up unfinished script --
Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter (Draft 2, With Comments)
What has occurred to bring me to this pass?
For on my life, I cannot make it out.
[PERHAPS BECAUSE THE RELEVANT SCENES ARE MISSING FROM THIS PLAY, WILL]
-- and one semi-scholarly compilation, including some script excerpts and a few production reviews.
The Great Fire Lord
CASTING NOTES
FIRELORD SOZIN: Heroic leading man type. Strong, well-muscled, must look good shirtless.
AVATAR ROKU: Attractively sinister type. Small goatee, pencil moustache, fantastic hair.
DRAGONS: At least three actors per dragon. No skimping!
And, in exchange, I received another delightful rediscovered bit of the literary corpus of the Ember Island Players!
The Legend of the Blue Spirit
The BLUE SPIRIT enters stage left. He glides through the fortress like a ghost, kicking, punching, and slicing through the guards. He leaves the last one standing, and places his blades against the guard’s throat.
Honestly, I hope this exchange runs for long enough to build a whole Ember Island Players library. So much hilarious revisionist A:tLA history, so little time!
There's a bunch of other charming works in the archive, which I highly recommend checking out, but I'm just gonna toss out a few more recs:
I Saw The Best Minds Of My Generation Destroyed By Sven Hjerson
Of all the crashing bores our civilization has produced, the contemporary detective fan must surely be one of the crashingest. In the four months since my review of Mrs. Oliver's previous book appeared in The New Mercury, I have been bombarded by letters upbraiding me for my reading habits. I am informed, usually in hostile and abusive terms that by skipping the boilerplate scenes of fingerprint dusting etc., I have “denied myself a fuller understanding of the unique pleasures” of this supposed masterpiece, that Sven Hjerson, Mrs. Oliver's bony and windburned immigrant sleuth, is Finnish rather than Swedish, and further that I am guilty of “slander” by characterizing Mrs. Oliver's productions as a kind of cheap dope substitute for the semi-literate.
One noble reviewer takes on the works of the great mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver. Ariadne Oliver wins. Does anyone remember that time the dude from the Guardian's liveblog of the world's longest tennis match became a chronicle of one man's journey to the other side of madness? If you liked that, read this.
The Jealous Lover, Or, In Death Not Divided
(By Anne C. Shirley)
Special thanks to Diana Barry and Matthew Cuthbert for their inspiration and encouragement, and to Miss Stacy for being so awfully understanding in letting us write what we wanted for this composition.
Warning: very tragical, don't like don't read!
ALL THE VELVETY DEEP PURPLE EYES A HUMAN BEING COULD POSSIBLY DESIRE.
A Pony Of My Own (Epiloque)
Magic-users should also know never to use a spell to make a pony do what they want to do. You wouldn’t like it if someone used a spell on you to make you do something, would you? Neither does a pony.
Important notes on pet care, from the world of the Chrestomanci Chronicles. If I ever have a child, and anyone ever purchases that child a magical pony, I would want them to read this very informational work.
On Doorways, Glass, And My Good Wife
So now I may set forth with perfect surety that, contra the rude commonality, it is a thing impossible for my wife to have called forth a fairy servant on her own account, much less so brave and famous a fellow as she is said to have kept company with, that creature sometimes called Red Jem, or else the Man of Teeth.
I'm gonna go back and reread this once I've reread Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel for the first time in ten years (coming soon, to a booklog near you!) but this chronicle of the end of a rather unhealthy marriage stands QUITE WELL on its own.
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I chucked two works into the fray, one straight-up unfinished script --
Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter (Draft 2, With Comments)
What has occurred to bring me to this pass?
For on my life, I cannot make it out.
[PERHAPS BECAUSE THE RELEVANT SCENES ARE MISSING FROM THIS PLAY, WILL]
-- and one semi-scholarly compilation, including some script excerpts and a few production reviews.
The Great Fire Lord
CASTING NOTES
FIRELORD SOZIN: Heroic leading man type. Strong, well-muscled, must look good shirtless.
AVATAR ROKU: Attractively sinister type. Small goatee, pencil moustache, fantastic hair.
DRAGONS: At least three actors per dragon. No skimping!
And, in exchange, I received another delightful rediscovered bit of the literary corpus of the Ember Island Players!
The Legend of the Blue Spirit
The BLUE SPIRIT enters stage left. He glides through the fortress like a ghost, kicking, punching, and slicing through the guards. He leaves the last one standing, and places his blades against the guard’s throat.
Honestly, I hope this exchange runs for long enough to build a whole Ember Island Players library. So much hilarious revisionist A:tLA history, so little time!
There's a bunch of other charming works in the archive, which I highly recommend checking out, but I'm just gonna toss out a few more recs:
I Saw The Best Minds Of My Generation Destroyed By Sven Hjerson
Of all the crashing bores our civilization has produced, the contemporary detective fan must surely be one of the crashingest. In the four months since my review of Mrs. Oliver's previous book appeared in The New Mercury, I have been bombarded by letters upbraiding me for my reading habits. I am informed, usually in hostile and abusive terms that by skipping the boilerplate scenes of fingerprint dusting etc., I have “denied myself a fuller understanding of the unique pleasures” of this supposed masterpiece, that Sven Hjerson, Mrs. Oliver's bony and windburned immigrant sleuth, is Finnish rather than Swedish, and further that I am guilty of “slander” by characterizing Mrs. Oliver's productions as a kind of cheap dope substitute for the semi-literate.
One noble reviewer takes on the works of the great mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver. Ariadne Oliver wins. Does anyone remember that time the dude from the Guardian's liveblog of the world's longest tennis match became a chronicle of one man's journey to the other side of madness? If you liked that, read this.
The Jealous Lover, Or, In Death Not Divided
(By Anne C. Shirley)
Special thanks to Diana Barry and Matthew Cuthbert for their inspiration and encouragement, and to Miss Stacy for being so awfully understanding in letting us write what we wanted for this composition.
Warning: very tragical, don't like don't read!
ALL THE VELVETY DEEP PURPLE EYES A HUMAN BEING COULD POSSIBLY DESIRE.
A Pony Of My Own (Epiloque)
Magic-users should also know never to use a spell to make a pony do what they want to do. You wouldn’t like it if someone used a spell on you to make you do something, would you? Neither does a pony.
Important notes on pet care, from the world of the Chrestomanci Chronicles. If I ever have a child, and anyone ever purchases that child a magical pony, I would want them to read this very informational work.
On Doorways, Glass, And My Good Wife
So now I may set forth with perfect surety that, contra the rude commonality, it is a thing impossible for my wife to have called forth a fairy servant on her own account, much less so brave and famous a fellow as she is said to have kept company with, that creature sometimes called Red Jem, or else the Man of Teeth.
I'm gonna go back and reread this once I've reread Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel for the first time in ten years (coming soon, to a booklog near you!) but this chronicle of the end of a rather unhealthy marriage stands QUITE WELL on its own.
This entry is cross-posted at Livejournal from http://skygiants.dreamwidth.org/414845.html. Please feel free to comment here or there! There are currently
comments on Dreamwidth.