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 Dear f-list,

I have a question.

Can anyone think of a third female mythological figure who was tempted by a fruit? I have Persephone with the pomegranate, and Eve with the apple, but I'd really like a third. Threes are just so nice and complete, plus I have a story brewing that wants three. But I can't think of a third woman.

It's bothering me, cause I feel really thick. Any help, f-list?

<3
Lillian

(Dear LJ, no love for eating my entry. You're lucky it was short and I remembered it all. Please don't do it again. Thanks.)

Because I don't know what else to do with this, have some melodramatic!poetry (also, by extension, shitty!poetry):

Quand T'es Parti

Je ne peut rien penser sauf
Tu me manques,
Je ne peut rien dire sauf
Je t'aime encore,
Je ne peut rien sentir
Quand t'es parti. 
 

This got me thinking though -- someday, I'd love to start up a 'zine for bilingual English-French short fiction and poetry. It would be geared towards Canadians (could probably get an arts grant for it), and would have an equal number of English and French works published in it. Not only that, but it would also encourage works that combine both languages together within the same poem/story. As far as I know (and I don't know much, since I haven't gone searching),  there's nothing like that out there currently. Who knows, there's probably something similar started up already, I hope there is. But if not, well, then maybe someday I will start it. Cause I think it's a damn good idea.

What do you guys think, crazy idea or workable idea? (Or "run a damned Google search already, Lillian, it's been done" ?) 

ETA: Did a Google search -- found this site, which will be useful for market hunting, and specifically aea magazine, which does accept submissions in both English and French. From a quick scan, though, that seems to be the only one listed there.

 Milestone! I've been revising "A Thing of Many Facets" slowly over the past week. Didn't really make any major changes, mostly just cut a few unnecessary words and added a few for clarity here and there. The only major change I made was adding two sentences to the ending paragraph to give it a bit more weight and hopefully fix the (very valid) concerns that shade53had with it.

"A Thing of Many Facets"
Starting word count: 1,489
Ending word count: 1,530

I submitted it to Fickle Muses tonight. Not a paying market, but it was the one I could find whose guidelines seemed to match my story best. First ever submission! (Unless you count my high school magazine, in which case it's my fourth ever submission.)

So now I wait, almost certainly for a rejection. In the meantime, I'll create a spreadsheet for keeping track of submissions.

... Alright, that's done. Now what? Right. Wait.

Good thing I have Iliad and Aeneid translations to do.

(Oh yeah, and I've been on a big TRAX kick lately. Can you tell?)

Edit: I was tagged by bluebonnets!

 Since I lack the brain power to write a real post, have some not entirely random quotes.

"Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves?" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen."- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"There's no comparison between what's lost by not trying and what's lost by not succeeding." - Francis Bacon
"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."- Erica Jong
“A window of opportunity won't open itself.”- Dave Weinbaum
“If your ship hasn't come in--swim out to it.”- Mary Engelbreit
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”- Abraham Lincoln
“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person: Always do what you are afraid to do."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."- Eleanor Roosevelt

Hm yes. Not random at all, actually. But the real question is... even knowing this, can I take a risk?

So today on my way back from dance class a protest group went past me. (A very angry French hobo also told me he loved me, but that's a side story). The protest group -- maybe 20 or 30 people, though I'm bad at estimating crowd sizes -- was the stereotypical motly assortement of folk, some with bongos, others with signs that said "make love not war" etc.

But it made me happy to see that some people are actively voicing their thoughts about war, and Canada's involvement in it. And one of their signs made me think. "Make love not war" and lots of peace signs are standard, the eye almost skips over them. One of the signs, though, read "no peace at gunpoint."

And that got me thinking. Can you really have peace at gunpoint? Can you really create a truly peaceful place through war and violence? I don't know my political history well enough to think of good examples for either side, but I'm sure there are many.

But yeah. Peace, ideally, is a good thing to have everywhere, but how do you manage that? If like begets like, then the very fact of trying to establish peace using force should guarantee that you will never have peace. Still, I'm pretty sure you could argue convincingly that violence is sometimes necessary.

I have no answers. But it's something to think about.