status report (ea chapter ten)

[verdeckt]

I have been terribly negligent of my promise to keep you informed of the update-status for Elective Affinities -- apologies!

It will probably not surprise you to hear that Chapter 10 is fully planned. Unfortunately, very little of it has actually been written. I am concurrently working on finishing a chapter of my master's thesis and that has,

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[eavling]

Thank you for the update. It's heartening to know that a story has not been abandoned, especially one so interesting as yours! Best of luck with your studies!

[verdeckt]

Thank you for your lovely words, for your encouragement! The thesis is taking up a lot of time at present, but the story is still being written, and will hopefully be updated in this month.

[verdeckt]

♥ ♥ ♥ --- your comment has reduced me to a level of incoherency below even internet-speak. Severus is quite appalled, but Harry approves heartily --

Celan -- yes! If I could take only one book of poetry with me onto a desert island, it would probably be a volume of his collected poems. Most of my tricks I've learned from him, and there are still so many poems of his, so many new techniques and images and devastating emotions I have yet to discover.

The edge is what I have. Indeed, I am also an admirer of Roethke's work! although I must confess that I don't know nearly enough about him and have not read nearly enough of his work. "Epidermal Macabre" and "In A Dark Time" are two poems I have kept close to my heart since first encountering them some years ago, but I don't know much else. (Any suggestions?) Anyway, I love how you made a connection between Roethke and Dumbledore; it's one I would not have made on my own, but that immediately makes sense and is proving to be infinitely helpful. McTabby's story is also brilliant, and I am

[verdeckt]

Thank you again for introducing me to Popa -- I believe I'm becoming addicted. In contrast to Celan's In the Snake Wagon, which I cited here because it seems to describe Snape's internal journey from a distant, meta-perspective, Give me back my rags captures the immediacy of his anger, the force of his subjectivity. The poem is remarkable in its own right, but I think I love it especially because of how extraordinarily well it expresses Snape's inner state of being. There are an unbelievable number of parallels between the poem and the character. Just pop into my head/My thoughts the better to claw your cheek -- or Get out of my walled-in infinity -- express succicintly and with unbelievable power the urgency with which Snape uses Occlumency and closes himself off from the world. And the appearances of "freak" and "double-crosser" make it seem as though the poem was custom-written with Snape in mind. An incredible discovery, my friend.

One of the things I love about Snape is his temperature, and that he is, perhaps, the hottest of