Comments | draegonhawke: Bipartite scattershot!

draegonhawke

Bipartite scattershot!

Dec 15, 2005 08:51

It's that time again: the ol' brain needs to be cleaned out, because there are a bunch of notionbits floating around, inchoate or half-formed, and they don't seem to be resolving into complete, coherent LJ posts anytime soon. So. Scattershot.

( On Deep Dragons )

topic: world, *deep dragons, } anra, } khor, entry: auctor

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draegonhawke December 15 2005, 16:54:36 UTC

Yes, indeed; as in all things, I can only speak to my own experience (both my experience of the world and of others), and that latter's certainly regulated by how much people choose to share with me. My impressions are constantly in a state of update and redefinition, ruled by whatever I know at any given time... but if you'd care to talk about it in more depth, I'd leap at the opportunity. I enjoy talking about things like this.

eclective December 15 2005, 17:24:58 UTC

Will respond to this with a proper comment forthwith. Suffice to say, I think I've known of your "deep dragons" before now, or at least known one such being in this lifetime; what you say about them strikes me as what I understand as the "true nature of draconity", what it is, at its core, to be a dragon distilled into a raw essence. Now, again that doesn't make it "better" - orange cordial undiluted and diluted are two very different, equally purposeful things - but.... eh, I did that thing where I put all the words into the first half of my sentence and now cannot finish it. XP

I think I might have some entries on it, somewhere.

draegonhawke December 15 2005, 17:30:59 UTC

Hwee, you do that too? I always have those damn sentences where the flow just really, really calls for a good hefty multi-part conclusion after a semicolon, and then it just doesn't want to resolve like that. And in fiction it's just as bad, especially if it's poetic prose, because my brain will say "now, for this line, you MUST have something with THIS cadence and THESE prominent sounds in the vicinity of THIS meaning," and then I'll go "But... but I don't think English has a word like that!" ...this is why I so often resort to borderline-surrealism ^^.

Dragons in the modified Western ideal and Dragons in the Eastern ideal both ring as "true nature of draconity" to me, though when I think "dragons" (as in, the English word) I do think of the western deep ones more than not. Eastern dragons I guess I just refer to as Lóngs (who show up in Estune from time to time), and are probably a lot closer to any elements of draconity I myself posess than westerns are.

eclective December 15 2005, 17:55:42 UTC

And in fiction it's just as bad, especially if it's poetic prose, because my brain will say "now, for this line, you MUST have something with THIS cadence and THESE prominent sounds in the vicinity of THIS meaning," and then I'll go "But... but I don't think English has a word like that!" ...this is why I so often resort to borderline-surrealism ^^.

YES. That's exactly it. In a word, it has to scan.

You pull it off so much better than I do, too.

draegonhawke December 15 2005, 17:59:48 UTC

I can be pretty obsessive about it, tell truth. I'll get hung up for days trying to complete a sentence, and 80% of my edits when I go back to edit things address nuances of lyric unevenness. Truth in beauty/beauty in truth, an' all that. ...comprises more of my tone than I'd been aware of.

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