oh fer the love of ... !

[truepenny]

So help me, I just figured out the main plot arc of The Sidhe Tigers, the postcolonial literature of elves baseball novel.

This is indirectly elisem's fault, because Sidhe Tigers is her work, as is Engineering for Elves and Eating the Dark Flower, and last night she put up earrings called Elves in the Wheatfield Breakdown: a song for banjo, which I was not, alas, quick enough on the draw to bag. But it made me start thinking about The Sidhe Tigers again. And this morning I know things I didn't know last night.

The human protagonist is an African-American slugger named Marigold Dempsey. Last night I didn't know there was a human protagonist.

I don't really groove with the concept of Muses. What I think I have is Cats of Creativity. And one of them just dropped half a very dead vole on my foot.

Comments

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I initially read that as "lovely, palatial vole". My brain still smarts after that.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

What a ridiculous misreading! Clearly only capybaras are big enough to be palatial. Voles are merely roomy. (Swedish engineering, you know; suitable for people up to 6'5". Or perhaps that's something different.)