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by internalogic » Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:29 am
Another excellent job.
Great job by Tim Pratt. Great narration by Norm. And once again, the music selection and production created the perfect mood.
This story is a glimpse into a moment. For example, it would really lend itself to being captured by a painting. The key moment here is the image that begins the entire story. At the picnic, with the parents somewhat lost in their self-enforced repression-filled mundaneness and their otherworldly child looking into the distance hearing something.
The whole story is giving us the background to let us appreciate that frozen moment. Point by point, letter by letter, the tragedy of Annabelle's childhood is spelled out to us. Just as with most paintings, the point is not a plot twist. Although if there is one, it occurs probably 30 to 60% of the way through as we begin to realize just what has happened to the little girl.
Rather it's about all of the delicate and dark feelings that are caught in that single moment. It's a contemplation of that one moment, and then finally a glimpse of what begins to happen afterwards.
As to her wings, the narration suggests the mythology of this world. For a fairy who has been stolen from her realm, the 10th birthday represents a kind of coming-of-age or crucial moment of power. For some reason, at that time there is an opening, a strengthening of energy, and an opportunity to return to home and to wholeness. On a selfish, personal level, I was glad it didn't end tragically for Annabelle.
p.s. I think that was Bach in the first section. Old J.S. never sounded so tense and foreboding to me before. I think I will be replaying this story a bunch of times. Thanks!
Sept 15 edit: listened again. Don't know what I was talking about. That was not Bach at all. I'm not sure who it was, but it sounded like Chopin. Anyway.
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