Valente's Winter Queen
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ellenkushner"[P]eople said to her: 'Can't you see it? It's awful and cold and it freezes the pipes. The highways have to be salted and the driveways have to be shoveled out.'
"She filled up her hands with snow and said: 'But it changes everything! It makes another city out of the factories and the fields and the flats, it makes this place an otherworld that's magic, and silent, like a monastery, holy and frozen and pristine. It makes houses look like gingerbread or holes dug in the earth. It makes the world look so perfect it couldn't possibly be real, as though nothing had ever gone wrong in the whole history of it. Can't you see it?'"
❧ -- from Catherynne M. Valente's Winter Queen Speech, for a very special all-Valente edition of The Green Man Review.❦
"She filled up her hands with snow and said: 'But it changes everything! It makes another city out of the factories and the fields and the flats, it makes this place an otherworld that's magic, and silent, like a monastery, holy and frozen and pristine. It makes houses look like gingerbread or holes dug in the earth. It makes the world look so perfect it couldn't possibly be real, as though nothing had ever gone wrong in the whole history of it. Can't you see it?'"
❧ -- from Catherynne M. Valente's Winter Queen Speech, for a very special all-Valente edition of The Green Man Review.❦
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Date: 2008-01-03 05:10 am (UTC)