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Renown? by BookofNorth, literature

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Renown?

Wendy dreamed. In dreaming, she was immortal. Invulnerable. As tall as the skies and as strong as the earth, as broad-ranging and unforgiving and unchallenged as the seas. Limitless, beautiful, and omnipresent. From all corners of the earth, she heard her name. Repeated, echoed, reverberated on a thousand singing tongues of flame, increasing her, inflaming her, engorging her. They spoke, and she bloomed. They sang and she grew. With each telling of her name, her deeds, her life, she expanded, definition irrelevant, facts unimportant, merely her grandeur and her dominion. She was a thought, an idea, barely an image. A culture passed down

Power? by BookofNorth, literature

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Power?

Aaron was dreaming. In his dream, he had power. Not the paltry kind that kings and politicians get away with, that temporal, terrestrial, infinitely cheap facsimile of the true thing. No, this was real power. The power to exert his will, the power to define, the power to alter the course of lifetimes, of history, of progress through time if he so chose. And the thing that devalued it all, was freedom. He craved it. Lusted after it. Desire for it consumed him. It was the one thing beyond his power to grant himself, for true power can never coexist with true freedom, or else there should be no responsibility to define that power, and no qua

Warmth? by BookofNorth, literature

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Warmth?

Coraline dreamed. In her dream, she was alone with the world. That's how we all start, really. Alone with the world. It's a big place, of course, filled with bigger people than ourselves at that point, strangers who are themselves just as lonely as we are, alone in the same world as we are. Loneliness is a cold feeling. A sort of philosophical shiver through the heart that slows us down, bears us down. We begin to see the world as a system of parts, a place for us to live and function but never really to participate or to integrate. We are the lone piece that has no place, though everypart around you has, and who are you to try? Alone,

Secrets? by BookofNorth, literature

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Secrets?

Dom dreamed. In his dream, the earth was open to him. Darkness and light were poured away, as was love, fear, wrath, patience, life itself, all distractions. All that was left were the secrets. The world is full of them, the world is built on them. Secrets are the currency of the universe, and knowing them grants access to the deeper, more desperate tracts of knowing. Magic, the art of knowing enough to manipulate, was to him his own nature. Physics unsnarled itself and thence removed itself from the equation. He saw the back ways of existence, the things creation hides, the low places, the high reaches, the depths of knowledge to which n

Wisdom? by BookofNorth, literature

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Wisdom?

Asa was dreaming. In her dreams she knew everything, and everything knew her. She watched the worlds from a distance, a remove where she could still clearly see everything in perfect, rarefied detail. She knew the names of the stones passing beneath her, their histories and their fates. She could call the secret names of the forests and all animals. Clouds were, to her, as roads and stepping stones, a path for her feet across the great arcing dome of Ymir's skull. In her right hand she held a distaff, in her left a broomstick made of birch twigs. She knew their names and their uses, and they served her. At her hip was a ring of keys, and

Covention by BookofNorth, literature

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Covention

"Are we seriously doing this?" Dom asked, darkly. "Yes," said Helena, adjusting her long, pointy hat in a mirror, "Yes we are." "But this is so tacky" he whined. "Not to mention cliché, and you're the one of the two of us that can really pull off the cape-and-pointy-hat look." "You are coming to this convention with me, you are wearing the appropriate costume, or you are spending the next week on charnel house duty, so sayeth your counselor." "As my queen commands" he said, sweeping into an ironic bow. Helena capitalized on the opportunity to clamp a broad-brimmed, high-pointed hat on his vulnerable head. At his groan, she remanded

Writers' Bloc by BookofNorth, literature

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Writers' Bloc

So recently in my english class we read Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, which is a series of one-hundred-and-eight sonnets, all as gorgeous as they are creepy, detailing the often torrid, always precious love/obsession a self-destructive young man has with a woman who is already married. All of which went far and away towards driving home one single, embarrassing, emotionally-destabilizing, and quite silly fact: I have writers' block. What's interesting (read "unusual") about the first sonnet in the series, is that Sidney actually took the time to write out a perfectly-ordered, Petrarchan sonnet in flawless iambic hexameter about

Testing...testing... by BookofNorth, literature

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Testing...testing...

So you said you liked the image of me writing silly love poems, I think you said it was sweet, and it just occurred to me I haven't written any to you yet, so here goes nothing: There's this thing you do when you read You get really quiet and really still, like the words you see have taken complete control wrapped you in quiet and expectation you sit there...like you're waiting for something as still as a guitar string, waiting to sound to reverberate to change or be changed ...is it wrong that I love that moment? that I love watching to see what happens next? You tell me I'm always staring...it's because I want to hear it the

Sleeping Beauty Revisited by BookofNorth, literature

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Sleeping Beauty Revisited

Once upon a time, in a kingdom that's probably really really far away from where you live (really), there was a king and a queen who were having some troubles. Now, here's the part where the kids start asking the awkward questions, and mothers are forced to give inane, quaint little explanations while quietly contemplating which rail to run your narrator out of town upon. I wouldn't think to speak for you, but personally I would rather avoid all that possibly-unnecessary ugliness, and shall instead lightly skip over the subject as tastefully and briskly as possible: They couldn't seem to have a baby. No matter how many times they tried, no

Je Veux by BookofNorth, literature

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Je Veux

I want someone I want to be kissed by someone strange and beautiful I want someone whose eyes say something different each time I look I want someone who looks at me the same way I look at them I want someone who wants me to the same degree that I'd need them I want someone who can speak volumes with me, without saying a word I want someone who I know is mine, and who I know I belong to I want someone for my world to revolve around I want someone who can make me feel cliche and unique at the same time I want to not be alone

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Aug 6
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Deviant for 14 years
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a teller of tales and lover of lore
also, butcher of bios and natterer of nonsense

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Coldplay, Copland, Lady Gaga, Cascada, Vivaldi

Favourite Books

Candide, House of Leaves, Children of Green Nowe, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson

Favourite Writers

Voltaire, Wilde, Riordan, Flynn, Snow, Thatcher, Kipling, Rowling, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Perrault

Favourite Games

Portal, Legend of Zelda, Age of Mythology, Super Smash Brothers

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Wii, PC

Tools of the Trade

razor-sharp sarcasm, a little black book, and a Parker Sonnet

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get to know me, I'm fairly approachable

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BookofNorth

Jul 22, 2011

Holy Random Barrage of Submissions, Batman!

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so I've been writing a lot of nonsense at work lately, and I thought I'd share it with you, my fanatically adoring public (let me dream). Anyway, what it really got into was a series of almost what I want to call character etudes; a series of rambling, pseudo-philosophical studies of major aspects of characters I enjoy writing for. Anyway, enough from me, I just got tired of seeing the same journal entry here, and I wanted to update to something at least. Until our next, --Griffin

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BookofNorth

Feb 19, 2011

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

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I'm speechless really and for those of you who know me, you'll know how big a deal that is.... ~heeplz (https://www.deviantart.com/heeplz) okay...getting a grip.... Profuse thanks first to http://sadisticicecream.deviantart.com/ , who was kind enough to submit my work for a Daily Literature Deviation (something I'm embarrassed to say I didn't actually know existed until this....eep) Second, thanks to everyone who's favoriting my stories! I just logged on today, and I had...well way more than I ever expected to get, that's for sure. At some point I will get personal thanks out to everybody, but for right now hopefully this can tide you over: Thank you so much! :iconb

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BookofNorth

Feb 9, 2011

Are you still out there?

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So I'm back for my semi-annual-actually-pretty-erratic-now-I-think-about-it-go-figure Journal entry Getting a good deal of writing done lately, but not nearly enough of my own. I've been working on an RP of epic proportions with my close personal friend, and dA neonate ~ttfly999 that involves, among other things, characters from the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, Norse Mythology, Arthurian Legends, Paradise Lost, Shinigami of my own personal creation, Dr. Faustus, and sundry other stories, folk-tales, and nursery rhymes as the occasion allows. I really hope we can start putting even pieces of it up here, it's truly fantastic. And