Fic Commentary: 9.8 Metres Per Second Squared

[the_tenzo]

Yay it's the fic commentary meme! If you'd like to get in on it as well (which I encourage whole-heartedly--I love writing these things to a shameful degree), here's the original post.

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[wickedgillie]

As rich as the original was, this fic with the commentary was even richer! Bless!

[editrx]

It's just that in the poem the 'it' is the apocalypse.

You do know that the word "apocalypse" means "to reveal" (apokalypto)? It is completely and utterly appropriate here as an echoed reference to Yeats' "Second Coming" -- moreso perhaps than you realized, given the Doctor's tendency to never allow revelation about himself until this "falling," "unfolding."

Then again, knowing you, you did already know this and were simply waiting to have someone else see it in the story. :)

Mmmmm.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

God, I'm such a sucker for Yeats, all these years later. Eliot. Gerard Manley Hopkins. I'm such a nerd.

[the_tenzo]

You know that scene in the Shakespeare Code where the witch has Will writing via the power of the marionette? Yeah, that's me when I write. I don't think consciously about much, so, yeah, maybe somewhere in the back of my mind I harkened back to my "British literature between the wars" class and made all those connections. But, consciously, not really. Good catch, though! Brava!

Though yes, the falcon business was also a deliberate callback to The Second Coming, along with all the stuff about falcons just being really nifty.

[fid_gin]

Yay, thank you so much for this! Just as gorgeous upon re-read with the commentary as it was the first time I read it.