04-19-2012, 07:53 AM
Billy
Thank you, and glad you got something familiar out of it --well you might have, as , although Orkney is not green like the Western Isles, the 'Whisky Galore' tradition lived on alright. I had some little plots of my land marked out with lines of upturned bottles of every sort. And they had the tradition of 'Wreckers' which a lot of coastal communities had, including Scilly.
I do not share people's antipathy to-wards articles: some languages don't have them ,eg Russian, or Latin, but I think they were developed for good reason. That is not to say I have used them well.
I had not thought about the narrator. I shall mull that
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yes the wild hunt has been used often .
Thing is, Bronte, I have heard the Wild Hunt!
Chaotic Body,
I understand your feeling of let-down. It is not quite what I wanted, but not, because of a prolix indefinite article. It could do with a proper re-write, and perhaps, for once, I shall.
It was a land of ghosts, in truth. My wife took very little interest in the cairns and brochs and standing stones, but it must have affected her,because one morning she woke up, and told me she had dreamt that she was married to a little wizened but not old, skinny very small man, with brown or tawny skin. He had been moaning quietly ''We are all dying now, all of us''. It was very unlike her, so maybe there was something in the neeps...
Thanks a lot, Dale.
I know that when I wrote this, I was quite happy, and wanted to get away from what people disparagingly call clickety-click, and to have lines of all lengths. I hoped that that would be sufficient to get the reader into the peculiar world I was describing, where it would have been easy for El Dawkins to have believed the the cadastral world was meeting the supernatural. It was so easy, on the top of my hill, to know that, as highest point, it must have had Beltane fires,, and been a look out from the very earliest Neolithic times. As you stood there, looking over the sea, with islands as if on a relief map, you knew that you were seeing exactly what those early people had seen--and since their eyes would not be much different to mine, and my brain not much different to theirs, in a way, one leapt back in time. Then there was the Wild Hunt at night.......
That was very clever to knock out a sensible version. I am going to have to have a long think, and either redo, or maybe something like it. (Or actually anything--I have got out of the habit of putting pen to paper, rather.)