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[edenfalling]

Last night, in an effort to refamiliarize myself with my main fandom *cough Naruto keeps distracting me cough* I started working on Secrets again. Chapter 9 is weird for me because I'm writing it out of chronological order -- that is, it has four scenes and I'd already written most of scene 2 and a snippet of scene 3 before I'd even finished chapter 6 or 7. So I started real work on the chapter by cleaning up and finishing scene 2.

Now I'm working my way through scene 1, which deals with Christmas holidays and Hermione's accident with the Polyjuice potion. It's going well, though I seem to have temporarily stopped plot progress in order for Tom to give a brief lecture on Ancient Egyptian rites of immortality and resurrection, brought on by the Weasleys' non-visit to Bill.

The funny thing is that I think I've just worked out a semi-rational magical process (and reasons for its development) for trapping a memory-self or soul fragment in a physical object... like, oh, say, a diary.

*evil grin*

I do love getting to explain things on two levels, especially when the second one goes straight over Ginny's head.

...

I could do without the solid day night and day of rain, though. Ah, Ithaca...

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[erised1810.livejournal.com]

i hava whoel book bouthe egyptian perceptio nof immortality (was tht what you wre talkign bout0 tirs to cnnect eveyr bloody hary potter plot to osiris and isis..tracign bkc the wrewofl demon to the meven adn tryignto conecti tsomehwowith bread crubmso nakitchen table...
*grrr* stil lrecuperating for ma weekend ful of sybmolsm.

[edenfalling]

Oh, something like. No symbolism, really -- I'm just playing around with mummies, ka and ba, tomb curses, pharaoh as god-on-earth... stuff like that. It's always fun to dredge up random bits of knowledge and find a home for them in stories. :-)

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

I stil dont' know anytign about an yof this. I semto be stil lafraid of stuff idont' know. h well. it's inded good to findconnectiosn for the stuf you know.
ofcourse i'm inthe frme of midnagian wher 'everyone' is a history major and 'everyone' knows 'much more' than I do lol. I don't know ANYTHING about egypt and pharaos and so forth. evne the stuf fin Annce Rice's books which was rather summarized too adn i'm waiting for hte person totall me it's 'inaccurate'.
OI' mglad i knew that aboutthe daavinci code (inaccuracy) before istarted readign it you know. I'm such a non-buffi nhistory that I'd take anythig nfor gratned ,even the romanticized royal england periods of threhudnred years ago or so because id ont' knwo a sackabout it either.
wel tis doe soudns more complex sn interesting then the 'simplee' lboodlinke tom madei nnother fic I read.
But at keast your'e not like the person who connected lycanthropy to stuff she found in jung and freud's theories n dditn' fuckign c are to explain to me. she jsut said' read the story 'and i didnt' get much more tou fo thattahn a whoel sack of metaphores referign to refferences linking to other conections....ah well. sorry to rant liek this.
I"m in two readign groups readin g the silmarilliion and 'mists of avalon' once a week and i coudlnt' hve made a worse choiceo f two books to read at once. lol. Do you knwo how hard it is to discuss propehcy and fateand frewill with soemone who givee syou ropes for some five six different fatnasy series that yo uhardly know the plot lien of? i put galahad in the rank of the wood elves and gigalad is biegn tgrainei dnvalon now (*smirk*