the wise little girl, the thrice-ninth kingdom, pgmarketchippieSeptember 20 2011, 20:38:02 UTC
THE THRICE-NINTH KINGDOM
Is this a test?
It starts with questions, and the knowledge that questions come with answers. They ask: do you know your name, do you know your duty, do you know your place. She learns quickly; the world changes. Her name is dochka, devushka, malenkaya, her duty is silence and her place is under the bed.
(They take her mother quickly, in the night, barely a scream in her mouth. Perhaps she comes to her duty by inheritance: passed on from her mother, with blood on the floor and teeth clenched in her mouth, on the day she was born.)
Her name is female, seven; her father male, forty-nine. Their duty is the meting out of food by the punctilious mouthful and their place is the barren countryside
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Re: the wise little girl, the thrice-ninth kingdom, pgcorleonesSeptember 20 2011, 20:48:05 UTC
ISABEL, THOUGH. I am actually gasping, I knew you would fill this prompt because hi, who are you, but really, this is so perfect and I feel like it's such a good piece of the time and the place. Ugh, this is exactly what I wanted. (Someday we will both write narrative novels for this country; it will be absurd, it will be glorious and there will be vodka.)
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Is this a test?
It starts with questions, and the knowledge that questions come with answers. They ask: do you know your name, do you know your duty, do you know your place. She learns quickly; the world changes. Her name is dochka, devushka, malenkaya, her duty is silence and her place is under the bed.
(They take her mother quickly, in the night, barely a scream in her mouth. Perhaps she comes to her duty by inheritance: passed on from her mother, with blood on the floor and teeth clenched in her mouth, on the day she was born.)
Her name is female, seven; her father male, forty-nine. Their duty is the meting out of food by the punctilious mouthful and their place is the barren countryside ( ... )
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We need to make like Coast of Utopia literarians and have a Russian feelings salon. And lo, there will be vodka. (Russian Standard, eh.)
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(Red Plenty in my hand in two days! Hee. I love that it's the only one from my package due to arrive ON my birthday. Oh, Amazon, you tease me.)
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