Which of the now, trying to count even as I type and realise that they are more numerous than the constellated stars on a clear bright firmament night, umpteen ghosts that are, since I posted my reply, clamouring to be auditioned should will cast in the leading part of Protagonist?
You have set me wondering Annete even as I romble on into this all too typically dull Middle English, early in September, morn.
A timely post, what with today being the first day of September, a moment in the time of this year's paced passing and a Part II which likely sets some looking up ahead along the paths they're treading towards the ushering in of Autumn with all its attendant mists and mellow fruitfulness.
It's reference to The Oratory that's most saliently catching my attention, by putting me in mind of the tomb in which Lincoln's son Willie was interred, in Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington's Georgetown. Could, I wonder, there be ghosts of the kind envisaged by George Saunders in bringing 'Lincoln in the Bardo' in and onto his writing pages, from whatever void his novel story came from?
In the wings of my Sunday imagination I sense there could, very well be, stirring of such "ghosts" that inhabit the Bardo "disfigured by desires they failed to act upon while alive" who are threatened by permanent entrapment in the liminal space... unaware that they have died, referring to the space as their "hospital-yard" and to their coffins as "sick-boxes". *
Egad but typing that quote - and thinking about that MacKenzie, Entreprenuerial Engineering Esquire said to sat upright still in his pyramid-tomb long dead but bidding his crafty cardplay can eternally cheat and beat the Devil while, in times present, he routinely takes his constitutional haunting stroll about Liverpool town - has set waves of goosepimples running out from the base of neck and pulsing through me with electrifying effect!
Who knows but that reading your Lichfield Rambling post has spawned the first sparks of a seasonal ghost story, striving to form and break out from it Georgian setting?
Which of the now, trying to count even as I type and realise that they are more numerous than the constellated stars on a clear bright firmament night, umpteen ghosts that are, since I posted my reply, clamouring to be auditioned should will cast in the leading part of Protagonist?
You have set me wondering Annete even as I romble on into this all too typically dull Middle English, early in September, morn.
A timely post, what with today being the first day of September, a moment in the time of this year's paced passing and a Part II which likely sets some looking up ahead along the paths they're treading towards the ushering in of Autumn with all its attendant mists and mellow fruitfulness.
It's reference to The Oratory that's most saliently catching my attention, by putting me in mind of the tomb in which Lincoln's son Willie was interred, in Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington's Georgetown. Could, I wonder, there be ghosts of the kind envisaged by George Saunders in bringing 'Lincoln in the Bardo' in and onto his writing pages, from whatever void his novel story came from?
In the wings of my Sunday imagination I sense there could, very well be, stirring of such "ghosts" that inhabit the Bardo "disfigured by desires they failed to act upon while alive" who are threatened by permanent entrapment in the liminal space... unaware that they have died, referring to the space as their "hospital-yard" and to their coffins as "sick-boxes". *
Egad but typing that quote - and thinking about that MacKenzie, Entreprenuerial Engineering Esquire said to sat upright still in his pyramid-tomb long dead but bidding his crafty cardplay can eternally cheat and beat the Devil while, in times present, he routinely takes his constitutional haunting stroll about Liverpool town - has set waves of goosepimples running out from the base of neck and pulsing through me with electrifying effect!
Who knows but that reading your Lichfield Rambling post has spawned the first sparks of a seasonal ghost story, striving to form and break out from it Georgian setting?
Thanks, Rob. I think it would make an excellent ghost story!