I feel like we had this conversation last year, but the something about the desert screams out for this sort of romantic tale. I wonder what it is? The movie The English Patient's cinematography suggested it had something to do with the shape of the dunes - like the curves of the sand were like the curves of human bodies.
As somebody whose romantic inclination drop to near zero when it gets too hot, I understand the lure of the desert and the heat intellectually, but don't experience it myself.
Dig the story, here! I like when you go for fiction. You have a wonderful way of making your personal stories seem like magical fiction, and I feel like you manage to bring a sense of honesty and realism to your fiction. Yay!
I've always been drawn to the desert, but I grew up in it. I'm familiar with both the romance and the reality and the extremes of both so it's naturally in my soul. The truth is probably far closer to the line from "Lawrence of Arabia" --- "No Arab loves the desert. We love our green trees and wells and places where the water flows cleanly"
Most of us who have experienced it have a real love/hate of the desert. It's definitely not a fun, romantic place to be but we can't stay away from it long.
Glad you liked the story. This is kind of en media res so to speak as I never told the parts of Lauren's tale leading up to this, but I think I might get there sooner or later.
It wasn't too intentional. I'd been reading a biogrpahy of TE Lawrence in which the author described the effects of Arabian malaria and dysentery on the man's thought processes. The phrasing was so eloquent that it just translated naturally into this vignette.
Thanks for taking the time to read and comment, I appreciate it.
Thank you! I wasn't sure how this one was going to come out; I could see the action in my head but it wasn't wanting to translate well into words. In the end, I just let it flow and left it. I'm glad now I did.
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As somebody whose romantic inclination drop to near zero when it gets too hot, I understand the lure of the desert and the heat intellectually, but don't experience it myself.
Dig the story, here! I like when you go for fiction. You have a wonderful way of making your personal stories seem like magical fiction, and I feel like you manage to bring a sense of honesty and realism to your fiction. Yay!
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Most of us who have experienced it have a real love/hate of the desert. It's definitely not a fun, romantic place to be but we can't stay away from it long.
Glad you liked the story. This is kind of en media res so to speak as I never told the parts of Lauren's tale leading up to this, but I think I might get there sooner or later.
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Thanks for taking the time to read and comment, I appreciate it.
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