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I don't remember much of the book, but I've always loved the title "Torrent of Faces." I think it adequately describes the cast of characters of Afterwar. Each part of the book has its own personnel, and each part has to indicate the complexity of each community. It has to because it has to, okay? The story is about conflicts in communities, among other things.
So to keep things straight I have to make up personnel lists. And over on rasfc there's talk about whther the reader ought to be given these things and I honestly don't know. But they do exist for this book.
Frank has been helping me with immunology and epidemiology, and I think that's going to be all right. As for the technical aspects of the demining procedure, I've made it very clear that the mines were nasty little cheap anti-personnel mines -- the people in that town are not nice. They are the same people who murdered most of a refugee camp twenty years before ostensibly because they blamed them for the diseases running through the area.
Anyway, I'm juggling juggling juggling to make sure that the torrent of faces isn't blinding and confusing and tedious. I'm trying to make the people stand out enough but not too much, so that the central people are still the most salient.
On other fronts, Zak brought me a CD of Carpathian bagpipe music put together by ZOltan Szabo, who looks just like the duda player for Teka -- that is, kind of like a cute, amiable Stalin.This is like an homage to all the different bagpipe things in the wholke Carpathian basin and also including vocals that imitate bagpipes and the song I'm listening to now has a wooden flute and a voice so I don't know what it has to do with the rest. The liner notes are translated from Hungarian but they are well translated so that they are only quaint, not unintelligible, and Szabo repeats a lot of folklore having to do with bagpipe players and witches or fairies or devils.
There's also an explanation of gajda (Bulgarian bagpipe), dude (bellows pipe with multiple reeds), and duda (Magyar bagpipe). Details about reeds and drones and hole placement.
Edited 7-20 because I don't want to write another whole entry just to do this. Here is a marvelous letter to an editor I wish I had written.
So to keep things straight I have to make up personnel lists. And over on rasfc there's talk about whther the reader ought to be given these things and I honestly don't know. But they do exist for this book.
Frank has been helping me with immunology and epidemiology, and I think that's going to be all right. As for the technical aspects of the demining procedure, I've made it very clear that the mines were nasty little cheap anti-personnel mines -- the people in that town are not nice. They are the same people who murdered most of a refugee camp twenty years before ostensibly because they blamed them for the diseases running through the area.
Anyway, I'm juggling juggling juggling to make sure that the torrent of faces isn't blinding and confusing and tedious. I'm trying to make the people stand out enough but not too much, so that the central people are still the most salient.
On other fronts, Zak brought me a CD of Carpathian bagpipe music put together by ZOltan Szabo, who looks just like the duda player for Teka -- that is, kind of like a cute, amiable Stalin.This is like an homage to all the different bagpipe things in the wholke Carpathian basin and also including vocals that imitate bagpipes and the song I'm listening to now has a wooden flute and a voice so I don't know what it has to do with the rest. The liner notes are translated from Hungarian but they are well translated so that they are only quaint, not unintelligible, and Szabo repeats a lot of folklore having to do with bagpipe players and witches or fairies or devils.
There's also an explanation of gajda (Bulgarian bagpipe), dude (bellows pipe with multiple reeds), and duda (Magyar bagpipe). Details about reeds and drones and hole placement.
Edited 7-20 because I don't want to write another whole entry just to do this. Here is a marvelous letter to an editor I wish I had written.
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What business are you trying to start? Or is it someone else?
I'd say the summer is going rather too quickly, but most things do at my age.
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Tati's dad is making a new buisness. www.reversica.com
It's not just you, beleive me. Far to fast.