Are you sure you haven't just reached the end of chapter one of a fantasy novel? There's the mysterious plant found in the wilds, of mysterious provenence, and the only one of its kind, unknown even on the internet. There's the fruit that no-one has eaten yet. Some time round about the end of chapter three, you will eat that fruit, and you will suddenly gain the abilities to see fairies, or will turn into an animal, or will get whisked off to a magical land full of pear groves.
However, I don't think it's going to be a scary fantasy novel, with Dark Lords and 3000 pages of murdered henchmen. I think it's probably written by Diana Wynne Jones. I look forward to hearing about your adventures when you safely reach chapter 20.
I periodically feel that a fantasy novel is going on around us - perhaps in the next valley, or we have got there 10 minutes too late to be in the plot. Occasionally I suspect I even get to be a figure in the distant background.
It would be nice to get some actual plot, though it will take the tree a couple of years to settle in before I get the chance...
Of course if I am still a 'figure in background' it may be that there are 3000 pages of murdered henchmen somewhere but I will "never find out any more about it", like the fox at the start of the Lord of the Rings that is startled to encounter four hobbits sleeping in a wood.
If Magic Pear gives me the ability to see fairies, I needn't wait, of course. Already see fairies occasionally, and when that happens I like to eat chips and watch American television and tell myself that my eyes are *really good* at projecting people-shapes and faces on random shapes. Am easily weirded out!
There's mileage in a plot like that. Nothing interesting ever seems to happen to the main character, but whenever he bends down tend to his turnips, armies trample past behind him with banners and flowing robes, just skirting the parish boundaries as they head off for who knows what. The nearby market town disappears one day, leaving behind just a vague shimmering, but he never finds out what happened to it. Strange colours are seen in the sky to the west (and east and north and south) but the sky over his house is lovely. Hmm... Not quite sure how to develop the story from there, though
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However, I don't think it's going to be a scary fantasy novel, with Dark Lords and 3000 pages of murdered henchmen. I think it's probably written by Diana Wynne Jones. I look forward to hearing about your adventures when you safely reach chapter 20.
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It would be nice to get some actual plot, though it will take the tree a couple of years to settle in before I get the chance...
Of course if I am still a 'figure in background' it may be that there are 3000 pages of murdered henchmen somewhere but I will "never find out any more about it", like the fox at the start of the Lord of the Rings that is startled to encounter four hobbits sleeping in a wood.
If Magic Pear gives me the ability to see fairies, I needn't wait, of course. Already see fairies occasionally, and when that happens I like to eat chips and watch American television and tell myself that my eyes are *really good* at projecting people-shapes and faces on random shapes. Am easily weirded out!
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