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Full text: "Flowering Dagger"

Dec 30, 2013 02:35

Fandom being what it is, I feel certain that at least one of you out there has wondered how Rosemary Sutcliff would have written a Bronze Age Romeo and Juliet-cum-Oedipus Rex-if you know what I mean scenario, and you, hypothetical but no doubt real reader, need wonder no longer. For it is a thing that exists ( Read more... )

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bunn December 30 2013, 10:52:44 UTC

Wow. Dark indeed, but the nature porn is first-rate.

And oh, the first-time sex scene interrupted by unfortunate mole!

Thank you for posting this!

moonlightmead December 30 2013, 11:04:18 UTC

Hmm - so you can see it? *peers at Google irritably*

bunn December 30 2013, 11:11:20 UTC

I can, but I had to leave it a bit - I thought at first it wasn't going to let me see the whole thing, but I think it uses the same error message when a page hasn't loaded yet as it does when it is blocked, but then while I was wondering, the pages loaded in.

moonlightmead December 30 2013, 11:49:37 UTC

I think you're right. I'm looking at it now. Hooray!

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moonlightmead December 30 2013, 11:03:18 UTC

What a great post to wake up to - but alas, Google tells me that I have reached my limit for viewing this book. (I reckon Google just makes this stuff up, as I certainly haven't seen the book before.)

However, there are currently cheap copies on Amazon resellers, so I have nabbed one and look forward to its arrival. Thanks for the pointer!

hedgebird December 30 2013, 12:33:28 UTC

Hmmm, I knew it was too easy... thanks for letting me know; I'll see about, er, making the text accessible in case more people have this problem.

daegaer December 30 2013, 13:28:34 UTC

Woe, I can't see it - it says the page is unavailable to me :-(

hedgebird December 30 2013, 17:44:12 UTC

Damnit... Thanks for the heads-up. Hold on, your fairy godmother and I are working on a friendlier format.

aquila1nz December 30 2013, 21:09:21 UTC

Oh my, to have new Sutcliff is a rare and wondrous thing. Thank you for finding this!

And it's female point of view!

hedgebird December 30 2013, 23:27:03 UTC

It was pure luck, but I'm delighted to share it.

And no kidding, right? She seems a little more likely to write female POV in short stories... by which I mean this is the third or fourth out of about eleven. :/ And the exceptional romantic focus in this story is even more unusual for her, imo.