"Without thinking, she reached towards the witch...But the witch snatched back, furious."
So close. Ooooh. Shivers. That kind of scene hits my happy buttons.
As for the image of the ancient tree, the knotting of pain and pleasure--Garden of Eden! One theory about Eden is that the fruit was sexual awareness, which humanity paid for with expulsion (from Oz?), pain, and death. Puts a whole new spin on the scene after Dorothy first meets the Scarecrow where the trees are pelting them with apples...And there is something very serpentine about the Witch.
o love it when you do that! it makes me feel so clever rather than just using an image because i like it. but then, if i'd done it deliberately it would've been a trifle heavy handed. and there's nothing to say that (houses and buckets of water aside) that the inhabitants of oz don't live forever in their technicolor garden of eden. and dorothy does have that eve on the cusp of sexual awareness thing going on. all innocent but only just (which i guess is what you get when you have a 16 year old pretending to be about 11)
i think i might've chicken a little. actually, and i'm going to sound so pretentious saying this, i'm never really sure where things are going to take me. i mean, i know ultimately, but not exactly.
i think it's the best way to be, cos then you're open to things taking you by surprise. unless you write crime fiction, i guess, then it might be an idea to know what's going on! having said that, i remember minette waters saying she didn't know who was the murderer in her novels until they revealed themselves, which sounds a bonkers way to write a crime novel
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So close. Ooooh. Shivers. That kind of scene hits my happy buttons.
As for the image of the ancient tree, the knotting of pain and pleasure--Garden of Eden! One theory about Eden is that the fruit was sexual awareness, which humanity paid for with expulsion (from Oz?), pain, and death. Puts a whole new spin on the scene after Dorothy first meets the Scarecrow where the trees are pelting them with apples...And there is something very serpentine about the Witch.
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Now this is really getting good. :D
I will tell you, I did expect there to be a kiss.
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