Jerri
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Sending you and all readers of your works my best Winterfair greetings. And in the world of the Five Gods, this should be the day of a Father's Day celebration. Do the two celebrations have much in common?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Thank you for the kind sentiments!
All the solstice celebrations in our world's countries and histories make up a hugely varied range of activities. Father's Day, winter solstice, in the world of the five gods should likewise have a lot of regional and local variation. Because of the god's association with justice, maturity and aging, and death, I'd expect it is more solemn than one would guess extrapolating from, say, the Roman Saturnalia, but then there is that more fundamental association with male fertility to leaven things. So the celebrations might be a trifle schizoid, maybe Father's Day and Father's Night (or perhaps Father's Day Eve) with the latter more ribald. Being the commencement of the season, it would run more to honoring new and young fathers; grandfathers would go to the last days of the season, just before the Daughter's Day of spring equinox.
Ta, L.
Thank you for the kind sentiments!
All the solstice celebrations in our world's countries and histories make up a hugely varied range of activities. Father's Day, winter solstice, in the world of the five gods should likewise have a lot of regional and local variation. Because of the god's association with justice, maturity and aging, and death, I'd expect it is more solemn than one would guess extrapolating from, say, the Roman Saturnalia, but then there is that more fundamental association with male fertility to leaven things. So the celebrations might be a trifle schizoid, maybe Father's Day and Father's Night (or perhaps Father's Day Eve) with the latter more ribald. Being the commencement of the season, it would run more to honoring new and young fathers; grandfathers would go to the last days of the season, just before the Daughter's Day of spring equinox.
Ta, L.
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Adger Williams
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Loois, do you keep track of loose ends you have left behind from each story as you go? (in a list or spreadsheet or some-such)., so that you can glance over the list at some point and say to yourself, "Oh yes, that fits in well with what I'm wondering about now". Or possibly simply have a sense for unfinished business with certain people or situations that may necessitate re-reading before writing further?
Kate Davenport
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Just finished rereading "Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen." Thank you for such an interesting and fitting coda/prolog. Your characters are so real I actually looked up when it was published and thought, "2015. Aurelia must be 7 or 8. I wonder if all the others are here yet? No wait---fictional characters." Either way, I hope they and you are doing well.
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