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moss-trolling again
Oct. 11th, 2006 10:40 am(I realize that every time I talk about this, my exempla are sexual. This--and my use of the word "exempla"--probably tells you everything about my books you need to know.)
I'm currently wrestling with a very neatly nutshelled moss-troll problem. Mehitabel is giving the reader a thumbnail sketch of Felix, and I could use to have a simile along the lines of gay as a barrel of monkeys on nitrous oxide, camp as a row of pink tents, queer as Dick's hatband (parenthetically: Dick's hatband? Why should Dick's hatband be so much queerer than Tom's or Harry's?).
But, of course, secondary world. Gay, camp, and queer are all off-limits. This problem I've already solved, the analogous word in Mélusine being molly. (People who have read The Virtu will have noticed that Felix doesn't use the word molly to describe himself--he prefers the Troian ganumedes, because, yes, he is a pretentious geek like that.) So now I need the analogy.
Molly as a ...
The moss-trolls and I are sitting around making faces at each other.
(N.b., you're welcome to make suggestions if the spirit moves you. I, however, am also welcome not to take them. Although if somebody comes up with something really good, I will steal it shamelessly.)
I'm currently wrestling with a very neatly nutshelled moss-troll problem. Mehitabel is giving the reader a thumbnail sketch of Felix, and I could use to have a simile along the lines of gay as a barrel of monkeys on nitrous oxide, camp as a row of pink tents, queer as Dick's hatband (parenthetically: Dick's hatband? Why should Dick's hatband be so much queerer than Tom's or Harry's?).
But, of course, secondary world. Gay, camp, and queer are all off-limits. This problem I've already solved, the analogous word in Mélusine being molly. (People who have read The Virtu will have noticed that Felix doesn't use the word molly to describe himself--he prefers the Troian ganumedes, because, yes, he is a pretentious geek like that.) So now I need the analogy.
Molly as a ...
The moss-trolls and I are sitting around making faces at each other.
(N.b., you're welcome to make suggestions if the spirit moves you. I, however, am also welcome not to take them. Although if somebody comes up with something really good, I will steal it shamelessly.)
