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Apr. 11th, 2006 11:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
korafoxIt rained some while I was in the art building tonight, and when I came out everything smelled all fresh and lovely. I'm surprised at how quickly things are growing; so many trees have opened buds just today.
I feel overworked, despite the fact that I've just been doing enough schoolwork to keep me busy and not really to threaten my sanity. I mean really, there are tons of bio majors and such who have so much more to do than me...and they manage it without feeling this stressed. -__- But at least, the largest part of the hurry of the week is over...or maybe it won't be over until tomorrow night. Well, all I have to do for Thursday is finish up my painting, which is the most stress-free school activity I have.
Reading an Orson Scott Card book at the moment...Enchanted is the title. It's quite good; so far none of the heavy-handed moral debates that made me dislike the later Ender and Bean books (of course I'm still a diehard fan of Ender's Game; have been since I was a little kid). All the moral lessons are wrapped up in fluffy layers of plot rather than out there in the open; just how I like it. ;D
So the book's basically about boy who finds a woman in an enchanted sleep in the woods, but runs away because of the malevolent creature guarding her. Years later he's a grad student of Russian folklore, and returns to the spot. He defeats the monster, wakes the woman with a kiss, and then unwillingly gets dragged into her world--sometime in the 800's, where magic still exists. (He is of course now betrothed to the woman, who turns out to be a princess, and all the poor boy really wants is to go home and not have to learn to be a knight and lead a country).
I very much like this book because it plays out a fantasy I've toyed with since I was a child--to be drawn into another world and live out adventures there. This world always seemed so drab when compared to the ones I could read about in books..not just in setting, but in what could occur there. Here, our lives are so individual...there is never the sense of, "my actions here will be important to so many people," or, "I would defend this friend to the last." And ever since I first ran across the concept of King's Man in the Farseer books, it has become something I long for. To find a master so beloved that I would willingly devote my all to them. To be able to say of anything they ask, "As you wish." There is nothing in this world so beautiful as devotion and loyalty...and that is what King's Man means.
But ah, chivalry is dead, they say. But I will keep looking, and love and protect my friends in the meanwhile.
*goodnight*
I feel overworked, despite the fact that I've just been doing enough schoolwork to keep me busy and not really to threaten my sanity. I mean really, there are tons of bio majors and such who have so much more to do than me...and they manage it without feeling this stressed. -__- But at least, the largest part of the hurry of the week is over...or maybe it won't be over until tomorrow night. Well, all I have to do for Thursday is finish up my painting, which is the most stress-free school activity I have.
Reading an Orson Scott Card book at the moment...Enchanted is the title. It's quite good; so far none of the heavy-handed moral debates that made me dislike the later Ender and Bean books (of course I'm still a diehard fan of Ender's Game; have been since I was a little kid). All the moral lessons are wrapped up in fluffy layers of plot rather than out there in the open; just how I like it. ;D
So the book's basically about boy who finds a woman in an enchanted sleep in the woods, but runs away because of the malevolent creature guarding her. Years later he's a grad student of Russian folklore, and returns to the spot. He defeats the monster, wakes the woman with a kiss, and then unwillingly gets dragged into her world--sometime in the 800's, where magic still exists. (He is of course now betrothed to the woman, who turns out to be a princess, and all the poor boy really wants is to go home and not have to learn to be a knight and lead a country).
I very much like this book because it plays out a fantasy I've toyed with since I was a child--to be drawn into another world and live out adventures there. This world always seemed so drab when compared to the ones I could read about in books..not just in setting, but in what could occur there. Here, our lives are so individual...there is never the sense of, "my actions here will be important to so many people," or, "I would defend this friend to the last." And ever since I first ran across the concept of King's Man in the Farseer books, it has become something I long for. To find a master so beloved that I would willingly devote my all to them. To be able to say of anything they ask, "As you wish." There is nothing in this world so beautiful as devotion and loyalty...and that is what King's Man means.
But ah, chivalry is dead, they say. But I will keep looking, and love and protect my friends in the meanwhile.
*goodnight*
