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nano being fucking evil. Got completely bogged down every time I started a new paragraph. This section clearly doesn't want to be written. And considering it's the opening scenes of the Pevensies deciding to stay and aftermath of the battle of Beruna, gyeeaargh. Though I don't understand why Caspian's pov keeps sneaking in. It's supposed to be omniscient.

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Just hope the reaction scenes go better so I can get on with the sort-of-plot. Then figure out where precisely I want to stick Glozelle's pov on Peter. Or rather, where up to - I know I want to start from when he first encountered or heard of him, which is probably the siege on the castle, but not sure where up to after that. I'm presuming that most of the Telmarines know a bit about the Narnian kings as legends or something - not on the near-worship King Arthur status the Narnians have them (Calormenes have them on King Alfred/Normans level where they still have records of treaties and so on of the time and thus know a bit better what they're more likely to do), but more like... I dunno, Robin Hood? GAH. Why can't the English have more legendary figures so I could do comparison better? But nooooo, we only have two. :headdesk:

Went and saw Mariza (fucking stunning Fado singer) last night at the Barbican (food in the restaurant is really good, btw), including the newbies of my aunt Sam and her mate Heidi, and bro's gf Louise. See them be stunned. mwhahaha. And she just gets better every time - better interaction with audience, more confident, funnier, more commanding - she's learnt how to control the audience with a single gesture. Voice and stage presence are stunning, as usual. Added bonus - she came down into the crowd and was an arm's length from us. Mum has informed me she's going to torment the portugese bloke at work with this. (the only pouty bit of this vs. Cardiff is the fact that due to it *not* being Wales, the audience singing a bit back to her was rather weak. I still treasure that moment in Cardiff - it was the end of her last tour, she'd been getting audiences to learn the chorus of a song, and when it came to the part when the audience sang it rather than hesitantly repeated it, she had this rather stunned look since she'd got hit by the wall of sound that is Welsh choral and clearly hadn't been expecting it.) Half the portugese population of London were in the audience. :g: Oh, and she apparently did a kids and families session that afternoon with added Q&A, which is very cool and a great way of capturing the new generation.

Date: 2008-11-03 04:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] burntcopper.livejournal.com
Yeah, I know about all those - my problem is easy touchstone comparison ones that *everyone* knows about. Not that they're exactly relevant. I'm trying to work out how much Glozelle as a Telmarine would've heard of the Narnian legends of the Pevensies. (Narnian *knowledge* of the Pevensies being rather... King Arthur/Robin Hood-ish by the time of Caspian - mythos and 'he will save us' of Arthur, location specifics of Robin Hood. The Calormenes, on the other hand, still have written records of their dealings and treaties, so they view them more as we would the Normans.)

also, trying to think - I need formal announcement or way of conveying to the populace that the Pevensies are official monarchs too, and that Peter is the High King - should I get Aslan to do it as the last thing he does pre-buggering off or get Caspian to make the announcement?

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