Yuletide

[quillori]

I have done very well out of the last few Yuletides. This year I had a delightful haul of stories: rather neatly, one story per request. My assigned writer was kynical, who wrote me The Doom of Aratta, about the Lord of Aratta, a favourite figure of mine. Then my recipient from last year, the excellent lnhammer (also to be found at

Comments

[communicator]

I love that poem - I think I like it best without any footnotes explaining the meaning of the images.

[quillori]

It's a remarkably powerful poem. I can't imagine the skill it takes to create a constellation of images that continue to work even across such a major cultural divide as separates us from T'ang China, and yet somehow it does.