tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061009.post1953299455403275642..comments2023-08-19T14:12:52.220+02:00Comments on Reflection & Inquiries: Literary practiceGeoffrey Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04041450398780043453noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061009.post-75366963566205492742008-11-07T16:04:00.000+01:002008-11-07T16:04:00.000+01:00Good, and now that I've found Dirk's web page, I'l...Good, and now that I've found Dirk's web page, I'll get to read what excerpts he has put up there. Not today (I'm behind schedule on my own writing) but soon. Good luck, fellow scribblers!Geoffrey Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04041450398780043453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061009.post-46207982256965608372008-11-07T13:18:00.000+01:002008-11-07T13:18:00.000+01:00I think I recall reading (or hearing) about the re...I think I recall reading (or hearing) about the recent Lithuanian pagan ritual. Via Dirk, of course, who is my main source of Lithuanian trivia <I>although</I> when I was ten I did read a children's historical novel about the uniting of Poland and Lithuania.<BR/><BR/>I'm still vacillating whether to discuss the novel on my blog. It might not be the smartest move just before I go on the job market. On the other hand, last night I wrote up a general plan for a new novel... to be written we know not when. With surrealism and the occult in it. The one under revision is more about music and theater.Karlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09925546212345361041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061009.post-68284873586390647952008-11-07T03:32:00.000+01:002008-11-07T03:32:00.000+01:00That’s true, my novel is set in Lithuanian pagan t...That’s true, my novel is set in Lithuanian pagan times, which were not so long ago – Lithuania was the last European country to fall to Christianity when a Lithuanian grand Duke wanted to marry a Catholic Polish princess in the 15th century. You can find excerpts on my webpage. <BR/>I think I’ve mentioned Lithuanian paganism on this blog before in connection with the relation between church and state. Briefly a newly elected social democratic government it Lithuanian did not want to hold a Catholic ritual at its inauguration because the opposing party was Catholic. It did not want to omit religious ritual because that suggested atheism, which suggested Russia, which was bad. So they dug into their folklore books and held a Lithuanian pagan ritual.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4061009.post-45160977541388367142008-11-04T21:00:00.000+01:002008-11-04T21:00:00.000+01:00Well, that's certainly an unexpected topic. (Has D...Well, that's certainly an unexpected topic. (Has Dirk mentioned the Lithuanian historical tale he wrote a few years ago? I believe the time period was similar, and Baltic paganism came into it in some way.)<BR/><BR/>My novel is a bit more present-day, or at any rate <I>closer</I> to the present day. I'll have to consider whether to put a description up on the blog, where I have mostly been avoiding writing about my fiction.<BR/><BR/>I too miss the old exchange of letters. Not that we had to stop, but we did get caught up in the online world. I still have a box of the collage envelopes awaiting use, but they aren't here with me so I'd have to make new ones.Karlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09925546212345361041noreply@blogger.com