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coprime_recs) wrote2004-09-17 07:15 pm
coprime_recs) wrote2004-09-17 07:15 pm
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Dark Is Rising: Long Way to Go by Nope
Long Way to Go (Will/Bran | PG | 1,260 words) is about Will. It's got an experimental style that works. Everytime I read this, I find something new or different. It's got a lot of the lovely use of symbolism that was in the original series as well as things left unsaid.
Excerpt:
"Where are we?" asked Will looking out of the window. It was still raining, a continuous soporific counterpoint to the rise and fall of the train wheels that had left him in a half drowse since Bath.
"Outside Bristol," said the woman. "Cardiff soon, see, then up into Snowdon and the smaller stops beyond."
Will thanked her and said "I wasn't asleep long, then?"
The woman tutted but gave no other reply. She turned more cards. The Magician. The Wheel. The Lovers. The part of Will that was as old as time shivered. The part that was a nineteen year old just scant months from attending Cambridge shrugged and turned to look out the window.
Excerpt:
"Where are we?" asked Will looking out of the window. It was still raining, a continuous soporific counterpoint to the rise and fall of the train wheels that had left him in a half drowse since Bath.
"Outside Bristol," said the woman. "Cardiff soon, see, then up into Snowdon and the smaller stops beyond."
Will thanked her and said "I wasn't asleep long, then?"
The woman tutted but gave no other reply. She turned more cards. The Magician. The Wheel. The Lovers. The part of Will that was as old as time shivered. The part that was a nineteen year old just scant months from attending Cambridge shrugged and turned to look out the window.