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lovexwentxred September 1 2012, 02:53:59 UTC
AHHHHHHHH!!!!

So I'm gonna start at the end first because I love how you've flipped things a little bit and made Mary mention the proposal in this scenario. AND A JEWEL TONE BLUE...YESSSS. She is so gorgeous in blue, I'm just imagining it and smiling.

But I have to say my favorite part this section was MATTHEW DESCRIBING THE FRONT/WAR...I CANNOT.

there, he was training and weaponry and the clothes on his back - he was not hers, nor Lavinia's, nor even his own; he was France's entirely, a creature constructed of that flat and fractured earth. He was not Matthew, he was not even Crawley

FINISHED. It reminds me so much of a bit of commentary in Parade's End where Ford Madox Ford acknowledges a very similar sentiment and I FLAILED. Oh, to have seen a bit more of Matthew's perspective like this in the show...I would have loved it. OH MATTHEW. SO BROKEN. SO HAUNTED. And you write it as always so poetically. LOVE.

They always seemed to confer at twilight; were most honest at the transitory times of day, when light hit their ( ... )

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lovexwentxred September 3 2012, 23:45:21 UTC
I'M BACKKK. HI.

OH NO YOU ARE NOT COMPARING ME TO FORD MADOX FORD. I AM NOT WORTHY. Ugh, IDK where that passage came from really, but I just love writing war!Matthew.

UGH UGH UGH I LOVE THOSE TRANSITORY POINTS IN THE DAY AND SO THANK YOU FOR LIKING THAT.

WOOOOO.

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zulu_ottawa September 3 2012, 23:46:08 UTC
I was so eager to reply I didn't log in. Oops! :)

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