OOC : A curiosity, a whine.
Mar. 12th, 2003 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sythyry(This is all OOC.) I don't often submit things for publication. (I dunno what, if anything, to do with the Herethroy Love Story Novel That Needs A Title, but that's a harder question.) But an ezine I heard about had an interesting theme: write a 300-word excerpt from a nonexistant work, to be published as a fragment. Inspired by the fragments of the Necronomicon and the King in Yellow, I presume. They didn't have to be fiction, or even in any extant language.
So I tossed together a bit of oddness. I should have known better: I am allergic to the very name of the ezine. Anyways, it got rejected. There's not a lot of other market for such things, so here it is... afterwards, there's an angsty little survey.
[From "Tsurallaa Sykku", a collection of traditional Vairihani advertisements with facing English translations]
KASKAUN (title): [A common name for a pet rabbit, in the optional/possible future form]
| Mihaunnu kylly chaioi | At some point in the near future, we will fail to understand |
| Atsully kyrryat 'toi. | the desired proportions of our privelege (atoi)/life (otoi) |
| Ksaksauitellen too | Neither learning more about sacred cabinet-making |
| Chero vyellenoto | Nor finding several new and brightly colored sexual partners |
| Mirri | will |
| Psirri | be able to restore all the lacking pleasures/contentments after they have been so terribly eroded by constant exposure to thick salt tears, |
| Tallasessat yoto. | as you already understand. |
| Kammenat psasella tive | There's no use |
| Rauen nirnaanat nanive | Making pilgrimages to your beloved birthplace, from which you have long departed, |
| Loipsertele hanaprissa. | For it has been delivered to your tribe's traditional enemies as weregeld for the crimes of your ancestors. |
| Koi chavenka kanvenkissa | Partial paralysis induced by eating too much underripe fruit |
| Mirri | will |
| Tirri | render futile |
| Tar tirtavattissa! | All your performances of vigorous country kissing-dances. |
| Maane mepsaakaan maelle | Drinking the hot musky words from the dry pages adorned with coiled illuminations drawn in ink or semen voided by the poetic squids of yesteryear |
| Maakenmaa psysala selle. | will not melt long-established ice glaciers of ennui into an ocean of passionate blood. |
| Vaakara raakyi raakyao | Nonetheless, a pet rabbit, small and happily furred, |
| Vaakanka Kasta takyao' | Which you can name "Kastyie", as is traditional for pet rabbits, if you so wish, |
| Mirri | will |
| Ksirri | diminish those aspects of your soul which are receptive to despair |
| Vaaktenkrastattak vao | and can be served as a side dish if, by some misfortune, it dies before it has done so. |
[OOC: Grr! This was gonna be an actual poll, but I couldn't
persuade that to work either.]
So what should I do about this?
Write more stuff like that (or other views of
alienness) and post to LiveJournal?
Try again at the allergic ezine?
Put non-Sythry stuff in the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
bard_bloom
account, and keep sythyry for Sythyry?
Write more Sythyry and things like that?
Apologize to the bunnies?
Stop moping and whining?
Re: Great Herethroy Love Story vs. Sythyry
Date: 2003-03-13 05:50 am (UTC)Funny; Sythyry's journal often strikes me as an in-joke that I don't get. Zie feels like a real person living in a world at right angles to mine; there's all this overlap that ought to make it perfectly accessible, and yet I still find myself getting lost with my head tilted to one side. But I think it's mostly that I don't have a good grip on the names / appearances / relationships of the people who populate zir's life. Still an interesting read, though.
I liked this piece because it was all there. Yes, I had to read it a few times to absorb it all, but it's short. Reading 300 words three times isn't arduous. It's, you know, zen-like. I don't know if it'd work to keep doing the same thing -- more translations, for example; the novelty of seeing the initial concept unfold is a lot of the fun. But it's no less beautiful for that.
Re: Great Herethroy Love Story vs. Sythyry
Date: 2003-03-13 06:15 am (UTC)It is, sort of, I suppose. It's set in
There's a lot of detail in Sythyry's journal that's not in the sourcebook of course -- Vheshrame gets a quarter-page, and that's mostly history and politics. Everything not in the sourcebook should be taken as fanfic ... um ... can you write fanfic for your own published work? Not canonical anyways.
I should make a Dramatis Personae and Glossary and file them under Memories.
Re: Great Herethroy Love Story vs. Sythyry
Date: 2003-03-13 06:49 am (UTC)Ooh! Please do! I love reading Sythry's entries, but I can't remember the difference between Herethroy and an Orren. Or anything like that.
Re: Great Herethroy Love Story vs. Sythyry
Date: 2003-03-13 08:25 am (UTC)Re: Great Herethroy Love Story vs. Sythyry
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Date: 2003-03-13 08:26 am (UTC)Re: Great Herethroy Love Story vs. Sythyry
Date: 2003-03-13 09:47 am (UTC)I, too, want you to write whatever makes you happiest. However, that being said, I'd really miss reading about Sythyry!
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