originally 2.7k. we shall see...
Nov. 12th, 2006 07:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thanateOk, so what I have written down in my notebook for the original chapter 10 is "3 roads/heaven w/ snake/Davy Jones & the whale" which isn't quite how it turned out... The more final sketch is here... There should be Sherry walking down the road on which she left the Americas. She comes to a walled garden (eden-ish) but I don't remember quite how the trees worked out. There's the one she shouldn't eat from, which might have dropped tantalizing fruit over the wall, perhaps? And the sparrow that she talks to, I forget just why, who then brings her a nut with the power of sight in it. And I feel like I used to have a clearer idea of the non-biblical mythology about the tree here, and the bit of it getting all tangled up with the golden apples of the sun, but I'm not sure what reference that was from & therefore where to go to look it up again, if indeed that existed.
Anyway, after that there's the coming to the 3 roads (a la Thomas the Rhymer) where Argent has been (chapter, um, 6 or 7 of his timeline... 18 or 22 overall, ie I won't get there for a while) in transition between Dante and Faerie, but that was some time ago and so she's still trying to track down his scent when the Wild Hunt rides out, and she has to turn off on the narrow path to heaven. Where there is much climbing of stairs (though not quite like The Hero & the Crown, or at least I didn't draw any parallels) and a rather unsympathetic St Peter, who isn't really that interested in Sherry, since she's not dead, or Argent, who isn't in his logbooks and therefore not his problem. And Sherry is just reflecting on christian bureaucracy, with possible glancing reference to the angel Lionel, when she gets accosted by the snake, who's hanging out in the shadows at the other side of St Peter's cloud. And there's some conversation with the snake that I totally don't remember what it is.... Sherry doesn't trust him, of course, since he's a snake and she's a mouse, but I forget whether there are really other reasons or not. But anyway, she steps back in the wrong place at the wrong moment and falls the infinite distance down from heaven. And falls asleep on the way down. And wakes up in time to fall into the ocean, landing on a footlocker floating along on the waves. With a name plaque reading "D. Jones" (sorry! she thinks it's awful too...) and then gets swallowed by the whale.
So, aside from the tree and the conversation with the snake, I'm ready to go and all. Maybe I should just be writing instead of writing about. But I wish I remembered all the things I used to know... I mean, I liked this chapter.
Then again, I guess it's time for breakfast...
Anyway, after that there's the coming to the 3 roads (a la Thomas the Rhymer) where Argent has been (chapter, um, 6 or 7 of his timeline... 18 or 22 overall, ie I won't get there for a while) in transition between Dante and Faerie, but that was some time ago and so she's still trying to track down his scent when the Wild Hunt rides out, and she has to turn off on the narrow path to heaven. Where there is much climbing of stairs (though not quite like The Hero & the Crown, or at least I didn't draw any parallels) and a rather unsympathetic St Peter, who isn't really that interested in Sherry, since she's not dead, or Argent, who isn't in his logbooks and therefore not his problem. And Sherry is just reflecting on christian bureaucracy, with possible glancing reference to the angel Lionel, when she gets accosted by the snake, who's hanging out in the shadows at the other side of St Peter's cloud. And there's some conversation with the snake that I totally don't remember what it is.... Sherry doesn't trust him, of course, since he's a snake and she's a mouse, but I forget whether there are really other reasons or not. But anyway, she steps back in the wrong place at the wrong moment and falls the infinite distance down from heaven. And falls asleep on the way down. And wakes up in time to fall into the ocean, landing on a footlocker floating along on the waves. With a name plaque reading "D. Jones" (sorry! she thinks it's awful too...) and then gets swallowed by the whale.
So, aside from the tree and the conversation with the snake, I'm ready to go and all. Maybe I should just be writing instead of writing about. But I wish I remembered all the things I used to know... I mean, I liked this chapter.
Then again, I guess it's time for breakfast...