Ok, again (with everyone else), I know we're not talking about paper topics yet...
but apparently we *are* because everyone else is...
Anyway.
I was just wondering what everyone (anyone who might have read this) thought about doing a comparative paper between the characters of the gentleman with the thistledown hair and the Wintersmith from Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching books? Anyone read Wintersmith?
Both characters are supernatural men let into our world by the blundering of an inexperienced human sorcerer. These supernatural men then become enchanted (fall in love?) with humans, and cause all kinds of trouble in pursuing their obsession. In the end, they must be destroyed by someone "more powerful" or by some special something... etc.
It could be cool!
It's rough, but there you are.
Help?
About Me
- Andy Duncan
- I'm a professor of English at Frostburg State University in the western Maryland mountains; a fiction writer whose honors include a Nebula Award, a Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and three World Fantasy Awards; a journalist since age 17; and a lifelong collector of Forteana.
1 comment:
I think this is a terrific idea. And might there be a folkloric ancestor from which both Pratchett's character and Clarke's character spring -- the "demon lover," the "erl-king," etc.?
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