Soldiering
Jun. 30th, 2004 03:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
woodfaceWrote fic today, a descent companion piece. It's fluffy and at the same time deals with a pissed off Sam. Heh, I think that was the first time I wrote pissed!Sam. Jack thinks she's cute when she's mad btw. But I don't think he'd ever tell her cause he would so get his ass kicked.
I'm gonna go read a bit in The Eagle of the Ninth. I'm in love with Marcus I think. Then again, I'm in love with all of Sutcliff's main characters. When rereading the books, it's obvious that her writing style is out of date. I read on a website that she rather tells her stories instead of showing them. I don't mind at all. Her books connect you to the time they are set in. As if she's drawing upon the story tellers of old, picking up their tradition and passing it on.
Sutcliff believed in reincarnation. She thought that people sometimes feel connected to a period because it feels so familiar to them as they have lived then. In an interview she tells this: Somebody once said to me,"Perhaps you'll be a soldier in another life." I heard myself saying, "No, thank you, I have had enough of soldiering." Perhaps it was something I remembered. I know that I was really quite startled when I heard my own voice saying this.
Love what she says here:
RT: As well as writing many works of fiction, you have retold most of the important legends of Britain at one time or another. These legends are often very complex and sometimes contain elements that conflict. What determined your choice among the various forms of, for example, the Tristan and Iseult story?
RS: I think I simply chose the version that I thought would fit most happily into the story. It was a completely subjective decision. The only change I made which was not vouched for in an earlier story was to leave out the love potion which everybody else keeps. That was just me. I am basically a storyteller: I belong to the minstrelsy. Therefore I will choose what seems right to me.
I'm gonna go read a bit in The Eagle of the Ninth. I'm in love with Marcus I think. Then again, I'm in love with all of Sutcliff's main characters. When rereading the books, it's obvious that her writing style is out of date. I read on a website that she rather tells her stories instead of showing them. I don't mind at all. Her books connect you to the time they are set in. As if she's drawing upon the story tellers of old, picking up their tradition and passing it on.
Sutcliff believed in reincarnation. She thought that people sometimes feel connected to a period because it feels so familiar to them as they have lived then. In an interview she tells this: Somebody once said to me,"Perhaps you'll be a soldier in another life." I heard myself saying, "No, thank you, I have had enough of soldiering." Perhaps it was something I remembered. I know that I was really quite startled when I heard my own voice saying this.
Love what she says here:
RT: As well as writing many works of fiction, you have retold most of the important legends of Britain at one time or another. These legends are often very complex and sometimes contain elements that conflict. What determined your choice among the various forms of, for example, the Tristan and Iseult story?
RS: I think I simply chose the version that I thought would fit most happily into the story. It was a completely subjective decision. The only change I made which was not vouched for in an earlier story was to leave out the love potion which everybody else keeps. That was just me. I am basically a storyteller: I belong to the minstrelsy. Therefore I will choose what seems right to me.
