Kip Manley @kiplet@social.tchncs.de

The third novelette of the fourth volume continues... http://thecityofroses.com/story/SoPowerfullyStrongActI

Dark Fife?

"Certainly it is hard to say whether a poet is conscious of a particular implication in his work, he has so many other things to think of—"

Here we go: the next chapter, starting now: http://thecityofroses.com/story/?c=so-powerfully-strong

"He said they pulled him over because he had air fresheners hanging from his rearview mirror."

"—the time has come for me to be alive and for you to stop speaking—"

(Deuteragonist is a stupid fucking word and no mistake.)

"What must the nature of the fantastic be in our time if it leads a French writer, convinced of the necessity of 'think­ing French,' to find himself, upon adopting fantasy as his mode of expression, on the same terrain as a writer of Central Europe?"

"If you can’t look into the eyes of the protagonist, you cannot hold people’s attention for more than 15 minutes. You just can’t."

(I still do love it when a slice of corporate extruded product manages to thrill and shock.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkZEpNsw6zA

Those scenes at the end where the protagonist is off to one side, smiling wistfully, as all their buddies and teammates tear into an impromptu take-out feast, and the chatter goes improv and drops in the mix as whatever ephemeral pop song swells? Yeah. Those scenes.

"Do not let uninformed threats affect response."

To make a stirring, soaring reprise of "When now, I still want and/or love you..."