Finnish "Thomas the Rhymer" cover!
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ellenkushnerThe book's not out yet, but my Finnish publisher, Vaskikirjat has just posted their cover for Thomas the Rhymer . It couldn't be more different from Tom Canty's or Kinuko Craft's (or any of the other that's we're working on putting up for my website) . . . but to me it really has that Kalevala flavor, all folky wildness. You?
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Date: 2008-09-02 06:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-02 06:46 pm (UTC)There was a set of the PRYDAIN books with a similar design some years back - so I already love this particular aesthetic!
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Date: 2008-09-02 07:00 pm (UTC)Caroline Stevermer, who was my best friend in College, actually made me an embroidered version of that cover during summer before our Sophomore year. I still cherish it.
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Date: 2008-09-02 06:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-02 07:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-02 08:01 pm (UTC)I am don't know my iconography as much as I'd like, but that jumped at me first.
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Date: 2008-09-02 07:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-08 01:41 am (UTC)I have, of course, the world's greatest translator, Johanna Vainikainen-Uusitalo...
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Date: 2008-09-09 07:25 am (UTC)-Johanna
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Date: 2008-09-02 07:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-02 08:53 pm (UTC)Cool.
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Date: 2008-09-03 12:14 pm (UTC)Offtopic
Date: 2008-09-03 04:29 pm (UTC)Thanks so much.
(P.S. I think Katherine is right about the Duke's jealousy being the reason he removes her from St. Vier. And I grieve with her.) And I love her being the newly-Queen Victoria when she announces she's the duchess.
P.P.S. Does Riverside completely fall apart without the Duke?
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Date: 2008-09-08 01:49 am (UTC)You're right, of course, about the Queen Victoria - which I've only just realized, thanks to you! I had the scene very clearly in my head, but thought it was coming from the Young Elizabeth - though how could it have been, when her Big Scene in all the teen biographies was of her receiving the news under a tree? I know I read at least one play about Young Vic, and that is certainly the scene. In her nightgown and all. What interesting things our magpie minds are.
Naw, Riverside doesn't fall apart - Katherine keeps it up out of a sense of duty, even though she prefers the Hill for living. And anyway, Alec's got all his charities already up and running through his various subalterns, so as long as K doesn't countermand anything, it'll all just keep going. When you read THE FALL OF THE KINGS, in fact, you'll see what's become of it 40 years later. Alec's foreign widow is living in the Riverside House (with his ramshackle posthumous son) and running a medical clinic. K's probably kept a skeleton staff in the Riverside house, as she would a country house. And it probably comes in handy for slightly illicit dealings, if she has any.
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Date: 2008-09-08 01:52 am (UTC)So, you see, you are standing me in good stead.
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Date: 2008-09-03 05:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-03 07:00 pm (UTC)Johanna Vainikainen-Uusitalo
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Date: 2008-09-07 10:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-08 01:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-08 05:43 am (UTC)« Hello, Vainamoinen.
— What time is it, Ilmarinen?
— Restaurant, Vainamoinen.
— Thank you. Bye. »
Not overly mythic.
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Date: 2008-09-08 02:02 pm (UTC)Sigh. How lucky Europeans are to be living in, well, Europe!
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Date: 2008-09-09 07:22 am (UTC)If you know your Kalevala, you know Lemminkäinen was _the_ seducer of women - even his name is derived from the word lempi, (erotic) love. Thomas of course was a ladies' man but I think the power balance in his relationship with the Queen makes the analogy hard to accept...
Johanna Vainikainen-Uusitalo
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Date: 2008-09-09 07:34 am (UTC)