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la_marquise) wrote2009-07-05 05:48 pm
la_marquise) wrote2009-07-05 05:48 pm
That first line bandwagon
So this could be silly, but here goes. I've put it behind a cut as it could get long:
Long form:
'The eleventh century was a time of political change for the British Isles, with such occurrences as the rise of the Ui Briain kings of Ireland, conquests in England first by Dames and later by Normans, and the absorption of the Hiberno-Scandinavian kingdom of Dublin into the wider Irish polity.' Ireland, Wales and England in the Eleventh Century (Woodbridge 1991)
'This volume is intended to serve as a basic reference guide to the surviving acts of the native rulers of Wales in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.' Handlist of the Acts of Native Welsh Rulers, 1132-1283 (Cardiff 1996)
'Gruffudd ap Cynan, king of Gwynedd 1095-1137, occupies a unique place in Welsh history.' Gruffudd ap Cynan: A Collaborative Biography (Woodbridge 1996)
'Wales in the middle ages is hard to define.' The Welsh Kings (Stroud 2000)
'On the 14th of March 1844, the city of Paris appeared almost to be in a state of uproar.' The Four Musketeers (with Phil Nanson) (Stroud 2005) [The first person who can correctly identify what bit is that's quirky about this line gets a gift -- you don't need to buy the book to do this, btw.]
'She was the daughter of one king and the lover of another; the matriarch of a powerful dynasty and the cause of conflict and war.' Princess Nest (Stroud 2007)
'"It appears," said the lord of the Far Blays, "that my sword and the gentlemen have become congruent."' Valdarrien, written 1989, unpublished and unpublishable.
'Even the lieutenant's ghost looked startled when the door slammed shut.' Living With Ghosts (New York 2009)
'They were not witches.' The Grass King's Concubine, still in progress. Sigh.
Short form.
'The killing in 1063 of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn is on of the better documented events of eleventh century Wales, being noted not only in Welsh sources, but also in Anglo-Saxon, Irish and Anglo-Norman works.' 'Cynan ab Iago and the Killing of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn', Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 10 (1985) My very first publication! Aren't you glad I write shorter sentences (mostly) this days?
'The eleventh-century Welsh ruler, Trahaearn ap Caradog, has received at best an indifferent press.' 'Trahaearn ap Caradog: Legitimate Usurper?', The Welsh History Review, 13 (1987)
'The 1050s must have looked bleak in prospect to AElfgar, the son of the earl of Mercia, Leofric.' 'The Welsh Alliances of Earl AElfgar of Mercia and his family in the mid-eleventh century', Anglo-Norman Studies 11 (1989)
'The 'Annals of Boyle', preserved in a thirteenth-century manuscript -- London British Library MS. Cotton Titus A xxv -- contain two notices of the death of St Patrick.' 'The Second Obit of St Patrick in the 'Annals of Boyle'.', St Patrick AD 493-1993 (1993)
'Students attempting to make sense of the political events of the ninth century in Denmark might be forgiven for finding the issue obscure in the extreme.' ''A Turmoil of Warring Princes': Political Leadership in Ninth-century Denmark', The Haskins Society Journal 6 (1994) My favourite paper! It was the the most fun to research and write by miles.
'Who was Gruffudd ap Llywelyn?', ''Gruffudd, grandson of Iago' Historia Gruffud vab Kenan and the construction of legitimacy.' in Maund, ed., Gruffudd (1996) I spent years on this point still they don't believe me. But I'm right.
'In considering the history of Wales in the period c.400 to the mid-eleventh century, scholars have been hampered by the scarcity of source material: the chronicles are frequently thin, and for the early centuries at least, not always reliable.' 'Fact and Narrative Fiction in the Llandaff Charters', Studia Celtica 31 (1997)
'A number of the extant Irish chronicles are prefaced by a section recounting 'world history' and usually cast in a framework of biblical and classical events.' 'Sources of the 'World Chronicle' in the Cottonian Annals', Peritia 12 (1998)
'The second half of the tenth century in Wales is often depicted as a period of chaos and disorder', 'Dynastic Segmentation and Gwynedd c. 950-c. 1000', Studia Celtica 32 (1998)
'Despite the passage of nearly 90 years since the publication of Lloyd’s A History of Wales, and despite modifications and strictures made about Lloyd’s tacit assumptions and frame of reference since that time, historical analysis of Wales in the first part of the twelfth century has tended to focus largely upon Gwynedd.', 'Owain ap Cadwgan: a Rebel Revisited', The Haskins Society Journal 13 (1999)
'The bells are sounding.', 'Clocks', unpublished short story first written in 1990 or 91. Set in Merafi.
'Miraude sits on the stair foot and hugs her knees.', 'Funerary Triptych', unpublished, written around 1991. I'd completely forgotten about this one until I found it just now in my story folder. Set in Merafi.
'She came down in flame.' 'The Last Temptation of Marie Antoinette', written c.1991, unpublished. (Around the same time I wrote an appalling short short called 'Rex Britonum, Comes West-Saxonum,' of which I seem not to have a copy on this computer. It was the two-page story of my PhD, and utterly incomprehensible to anyone but me.)
'"Again!" Lamorak said as he rolled to his feet.', 'Snake Eyes', unpublished Arthurian novella. 1989 but much revised since.
'It started with the Queen of Cornwall, my cousin, creamy Esyllt.' 'The Lay of the Court', unpublished Arthurian novella 1992, but again much revised since.
'The antiquary journeyed from the West to the East, with the Great Swamp at his back and the Sourwind blowing.', 'Saltus Lunae', written in 2006, I think. published in the BSFA magazine Matrix but I don't know when exactly, as they never got round to sending me a copy. SF
'Ordith crouched in the shadow of the drowned man, and counted her crimes.', 'Strong Brown God', in Glorifying Terrorism, 1997. SF.
'Sometimes, the tide left her dead men on the strand.', 'Seaborne', published in Myth/Understandings, 2008 (but originally written around 1992 or 3, I think.) Ties in with LWG.
'There was a Whitby man named Simeon Cant who caught the Whale’s Daughter and would not release her.', 'The Whale's Daughter', in Fabulous Whitby, 2008. This may be my favourite of my short stories to date.
Ahem. Well, I was curious to see how much there was with the non-fiction....Anyone who made it all through that lot should give themselves a biscuit!
Long form:
'The eleventh century was a time of political change for the British Isles, with such occurrences as the rise of the Ui Briain kings of Ireland, conquests in England first by Dames and later by Normans, and the absorption of the Hiberno-Scandinavian kingdom of Dublin into the wider Irish polity.' Ireland, Wales and England in the Eleventh Century (Woodbridge 1991)
'This volume is intended to serve as a basic reference guide to the surviving acts of the native rulers of Wales in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.' Handlist of the Acts of Native Welsh Rulers, 1132-1283 (Cardiff 1996)
'Gruffudd ap Cynan, king of Gwynedd 1095-1137, occupies a unique place in Welsh history.' Gruffudd ap Cynan: A Collaborative Biography (Woodbridge 1996)
'Wales in the middle ages is hard to define.' The Welsh Kings (Stroud 2000)
'On the 14th of March 1844, the city of Paris appeared almost to be in a state of uproar.' The Four Musketeers (with Phil Nanson) (Stroud 2005) [The first person who can correctly identify what bit is that's quirky about this line gets a gift -- you don't need to buy the book to do this, btw.]
'She was the daughter of one king and the lover of another; the matriarch of a powerful dynasty and the cause of conflict and war.' Princess Nest (Stroud 2007)
'"It appears," said the lord of the Far Blays, "that my sword and the gentlemen have become congruent."' Valdarrien, written 1989, unpublished and unpublishable.
'Even the lieutenant's ghost looked startled when the door slammed shut.' Living With Ghosts (New York 2009)
'They were not witches.' The Grass King's Concubine, still in progress. Sigh.
Short form.
'The killing in 1063 of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn is on of the better documented events of eleventh century Wales, being noted not only in Welsh sources, but also in Anglo-Saxon, Irish and Anglo-Norman works.' 'Cynan ab Iago and the Killing of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn', Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 10 (1985) My very first publication! Aren't you glad I write shorter sentences (mostly) this days?
'The eleventh-century Welsh ruler, Trahaearn ap Caradog, has received at best an indifferent press.' 'Trahaearn ap Caradog: Legitimate Usurper?', The Welsh History Review, 13 (1987)
'The 1050s must have looked bleak in prospect to AElfgar, the son of the earl of Mercia, Leofric.' 'The Welsh Alliances of Earl AElfgar of Mercia and his family in the mid-eleventh century', Anglo-Norman Studies 11 (1989)
'The 'Annals of Boyle', preserved in a thirteenth-century manuscript -- London British Library MS. Cotton Titus A xxv -- contain two notices of the death of St Patrick.' 'The Second Obit of St Patrick in the 'Annals of Boyle'.', St Patrick AD 493-1993 (1993)
'Students attempting to make sense of the political events of the ninth century in Denmark might be forgiven for finding the issue obscure in the extreme.' ''A Turmoil of Warring Princes': Political Leadership in Ninth-century Denmark', The Haskins Society Journal 6 (1994) My favourite paper! It was the the most fun to research and write by miles.
'Who was Gruffudd ap Llywelyn?', ''Gruffudd, grandson of Iago' Historia Gruffud vab Kenan and the construction of legitimacy.' in Maund, ed., Gruffudd (1996) I spent years on this point still they don't believe me. But I'm right.
'In considering the history of Wales in the period c.400 to the mid-eleventh century, scholars have been hampered by the scarcity of source material: the chronicles are frequently thin, and for the early centuries at least, not always reliable.' 'Fact and Narrative Fiction in the Llandaff Charters', Studia Celtica 31 (1997)
'A number of the extant Irish chronicles are prefaced by a section recounting 'world history' and usually cast in a framework of biblical and classical events.' 'Sources of the 'World Chronicle' in the Cottonian Annals', Peritia 12 (1998)
'The second half of the tenth century in Wales is often depicted as a period of chaos and disorder', 'Dynastic Segmentation and Gwynedd c. 950-c. 1000', Studia Celtica 32 (1998)
'Despite the passage of nearly 90 years since the publication of Lloyd’s A History of Wales, and despite modifications and strictures made about Lloyd’s tacit assumptions and frame of reference since that time, historical analysis of Wales in the first part of the twelfth century has tended to focus largely upon Gwynedd.', 'Owain ap Cadwgan: a Rebel Revisited', The Haskins Society Journal 13 (1999)
'The bells are sounding.', 'Clocks', unpublished short story first written in 1990 or 91. Set in Merafi.
'Miraude sits on the stair foot and hugs her knees.', 'Funerary Triptych', unpublished, written around 1991. I'd completely forgotten about this one until I found it just now in my story folder. Set in Merafi.
'She came down in flame.' 'The Last Temptation of Marie Antoinette', written c.1991, unpublished. (Around the same time I wrote an appalling short short called 'Rex Britonum, Comes West-Saxonum,' of which I seem not to have a copy on this computer. It was the two-page story of my PhD, and utterly incomprehensible to anyone but me.)
'"Again!" Lamorak said as he rolled to his feet.', 'Snake Eyes', unpublished Arthurian novella. 1989 but much revised since.
'It started with the Queen of Cornwall, my cousin, creamy Esyllt.' 'The Lay of the Court', unpublished Arthurian novella 1992, but again much revised since.
'The antiquary journeyed from the West to the East, with the Great Swamp at his back and the Sourwind blowing.', 'Saltus Lunae', written in 2006, I think. published in the BSFA magazine Matrix but I don't know when exactly, as they never got round to sending me a copy. SF
'Ordith crouched in the shadow of the drowned man, and counted her crimes.', 'Strong Brown God', in Glorifying Terrorism, 1997. SF.
'Sometimes, the tide left her dead men on the strand.', 'Seaborne', published in Myth/Understandings, 2008 (but originally written around 1992 or 3, I think.) Ties in with LWG.
'There was a Whitby man named Simeon Cant who caught the Whale’s Daughter and would not release her.', 'The Whale's Daughter', in Fabulous Whitby, 2008. This may be my favourite of my short stories to date.
Ahem. Well, I was curious to see how much there was with the non-fiction....Anyone who made it all through that lot should give themselves a biscuit!
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I was intrigued and baffled, so I
cheatedgoogled. I'm not much wiser, but I did discover this was the date of Merimee's election to the Academie Francaise.Googling when should be working = bad.
But googling in French = good.
So I average to neutral.
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The Apostasy Question in the Context of Anglo-Ottoman Relations ...declaration of 14 March 1844, since it did not fulfil the requirements of ... instructed the Austrian Ambassador to Paris to ask Guizot not to ask the ...
However, on following the link, I encountered the demand I pay sixteen quid to read the article.
Rather than cough up sixteen pounds, I will instead ask you: are the above references to what I'm guessing (based on the use of the word, "apostasy") must have been some kind of religious declaration on the right track?
Or anywhere within a hundred miles of the right track?
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Do I win a prize? ;)
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If you take the descriptive phrase: "in a state of uproar," and rearrange the letters just a little bit, your book's opening sentence will read: "On the 14th of March 1844, the city of Paris appeared almost to be... a pastorate of ruin."
Arranging those same letters a little differently, the city of Paris might also appear to be:
a restaurant of Poi
a parasite roof nut
or:
a parfait Euro snot
But *then* you add the hint: "Thank you for ploughing through it."
As "ploughing" implies working in the fields, and your book is about the *four" musketeers -- not the three! -- might the hidden message in your opening sentence actually be:
On the 14th of March 1844, the city of Paris appeared almost to be... a peasant four riot? ;)
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BTW, I assume you know I was only kidding about the anagrams. (Though I do think 1844 Paris really could have used a Poi restaurant.)
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(I think, indeed, that a Poi restaurant would have been an asset).
I will find a prize forthwith.
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