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--- Quote from: Iced Fairy on September 23, 2012, 09:00:00 PM ---Maybe I should consider compiling a link set of all my shorts though. Most of them have some interconnection, and I probably could put together theme sets for stuff. Like stuff centered on Hatate or Marisa. Might give a better idea of the continuity and connections in my headcannon. --- End quote --- I strongly encourage this endeavour. Also, looks like I have a lot of reading to catch up on ... |
| Iced Fairy:
So having a Noir song linked reminded me that I never got around to referencing where all the chapter quotes came from. I shall fix that. --- Quote ---In Xanadu did Kublai Khan A stately Pleasure-Dome decree, Where Alph, the sacred river ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. --- End quote --- - Kubla Khan, Samuel Tailor Coleridge The prologues start, a tale of a lost paradise, Spoiler: for the lost paradise of the moon. --- Quote ---Only the phoenix rises, and does not descend... --- End quote --- - Sandman: Exile, Neil Geiman Sandman is something I always reference when doing Touhou, and Exile is one of the finest shorts in the series, along with Ramadan. --- Quote ---To find glory in battle is a virtue in the soldier, a vice in the general, and a positive crime in the statesman. --- End quote --- - George Santayana An old quote that speaks for itself. Spoiler: I couldn't find myself making Yorihime and Toyohime the kind of villains the story needed. They're racists and generally unlikable, but they avoid killing at least. Sadly not all statesmen are similarly blessed with morals. --- Quote ---“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.” --- End quote --- -Peace Pilgrim Another quote that's exactly what it says. --- Quote ---“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” --- End quote --- - Anne Frank This quote had multiple meanings. I wanted to show how much Gensoukyo had changed for the better since book one. That Renko and Mary's journey hadn't been a waste. Spoiler: However, it also shows how quickly the world can change for ill. Hope and despair. --- Quote ---“So stand to your glasses steady, This world is a web of lies” --- End quote --- - Pilot Song from WWI I got it from A battletech book, but it's been around since at least the first world war. The lines as I know them: "We meet neath the sounding rafters. The wall round us are bare. They echo the peals of laughter. It seems as the dead are there. So stand by your glasses steady, this world is a web of lies. Here's a toast to the dead already. Hurrah for the next one who dies. Cut off from the land that bore us, betrayed by the land that we find. The good men have gone before us, and only the dull left behind. So stand by your glasses steady, this world is a web of lies. Here's a toast to the dead already. Hurrah for the next one who dies." --- Quote ---“Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.” --- End quote --- -Emily Dickinsen Even in Gensoukyo where death is less of a black box, death is a big deal. Perhaps more so in that it happens less frequently to the residents of this world. To those who only die through violence, death will always be a great tragedy. Spoiler: I actually felt bad about offing the Lunarians here. I think I ended up sparing Reisen II as an apology. --- Quote ---“Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him.“ --- End quote --- MASH - Colonel Potter From the series that was in Korea but about Vietnam. Spoiler: It is on some level terrifying to realize how much death we can unleash with switches and buttons. How many a man can kill without ever seeing their faces. Sometimes I wonder if this makes us more likely to commit such horrible acts. Then I remember how good humanity was at killing each other back when we had rocks. Still for the average person, it's something that might make them think. --- Quote ---I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. --- End quote --- -Tora! Tora! Tora!, Isoroku Yamamoto While the exact quote is contested, the feelings were there. Yamamoto was correct in his assessment too. Spoiler: Maribel is very very angry. --- Quote ---People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. --- End quote --- -Stranger in the Village, James Baldwin When I grabbed the quote I didn't realize it's full significance, however reading more about it I find it fits even better. Spoiler: The Tengu in their pride want to deny their connections to Gensoukyo and their status among the youkai. But they can't escape those connections, and their responsibilities. They can either work with them, or be broken by them. --- Quote ---He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. --- End quote --- -Analects, Confucius I don't think much of Confucius, but he had some good ideas mingled in his works. Spoiler: And yeah, the whole end of the book is about diplomacy, and how it's much easier to find friends when you are a murdering pretentious douche. Funny how that works. --- Quote ---“King's pawn to E5” --- End quote --- The traditional opening in chess. Spoiler: Kanako's so pissed they didn't do the Sicilian defense. --- Quote ---You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poison arrows. --- End quote --- - Baltasar Gracian A bit of a misnomer since the Lunarian's didn't need to wage war either. Spoiler: However it covers my opinion of their larger tactics well. --- Quote ---If love can destroy, can hatred save? --- End quote --- - Noir One of my favorite quotes from a series I should watch again. Spoiler: And a fitting question for Mima, Marisa, Kanon and Mokou in this tragedy. --- Quote ---A man cannot sleep under the same sky, that shelters his father's killer. --- End quote --- - Confucius Something I agree less with, but the drive for vengeance is hard to escape. Spoiler: A fitting quote for Shoutoku's quest for revenge, Huian's battle to prove Meiling's power, and Maribel's slide into madness. --- Quote ---It is good that war is so terrible, lest we become too fond of it. --- End quote --- -Robert E Lee Something of a reminder to myself I guess. Spoiler: I enjoyed writing the Lunarians getting owned a lot. It's also a good final quote for Jiyuwan, another warrior bound by honor to the wrong side of history. --- Quote ---It is the living that cry for vengeance. --- End quote --- - Battletech, Malicious Intent Another quote that's less true in Gensoukyo then in the real world, but I think it still has some bearing. It's easy to get caught up in the wrongs of the past and not see what needs to be done now. Spoiler: Once again Shoutoku and Maribel find themselves chained to their fallen kin --- Quote ---Have faith in God, but keep your powder dry. --- End quote --- - Oliver Cromwell Faith is odd in Gensoukyo. To believe in something you know exists is different then to believe in something you have been told exists. Spoiler: And this quote was all about Momiji. I always thought Momiji would be the type of person who has no need or respect for gods and saviors. Someone who figured you shouldn't trust to mystical powers when you could do it yourself. But I also think she'd be brave enough to admit when she needs help, and to have unrelenting faith not in a goddess, but in Kanako as a person. --- Quote ---The best laid schemes of mice and men... --- End quote --- -To a Mouse, Robert Burns "But little Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go often awry, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy!" Spoiler: And sometimes, even when everything goes right you might wish it hadn't. Isn't that right, Yukari? --- Quote ---Only the phoenix arises and does not descend. Everything Changes And nothing is truly lost. --- End quote --- - Sandman: Exile, Neil Geiman --- Quote ---"I give our story to dreams, so that as long as the world lasts, it is not forgotten." --- End quote --- - Sandman: Ramadan, Neil Geiman I ended where I began. With Sandman quotes. Both of those stories talk of Beginnings. And Endings. And how, though everything that begins will end, it will also live forever. In dreams, in hearts, in minds, and in the stories we pass on. |
| Iced Fairy:
Hideki was so awesome as to bundle all of the books into a kindle format. However the link was in my shorts thread so i'm tossing it on here so people who actually want a copy after reading the story can grab it. http://www.mediafire.com/?of818lky76excd1 |
| gammaraptor:
Ahh time to reread the entire thing :D |
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