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To all who celebrate, and happy New Year to my friends who don't. I'm learning this for one of my choirs,and it's truly a prayer for peace. In this video, the composer is conducting in Belfast Cathedral. May we have peace and may we help to bring it!
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This is a song I wrote for the ARC giveaway contest - just for fun, since I don't want to actually keep the advance reading copy from anyone else. I hope it will actually play here! Here's the link:



I just checked - Jon, below, noted that the link didn't work for him, though it did for me on the library macbook. So, in case it doesn't work for others, here are the words.

The Sophos Rap

Oh, you make make a great big fuss
about that sneak Odysseus,
or all those blokes who fought at Troy,
but I'm here to praise a different boy.
What's his name? Sophos!
What's his name? Sophos!
What's his name? Sophos!
Sophos is his name.

He's a friend to Eugenides,
the coolest thief you'll ever see.
He knows his fruit from his olive trees.
Sophos is his name.
What's his name?(etc)

And he understands philosophy.
There's a lot more I could say, you see,
but I wanna keep this spoiler-free!
Sohpos is his name.
What's his name? (etc)
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This is passed on from eleanor X, who had posted the video to her own livejournal. It really is a terrific song; I can't get it out of my head, and the lyrics (in spite of a couple of infelicitous words like "puppetile" - why not "puppet-like" or simply "puppet's"?) are pretty astonishing. If you watch this, consider the relationship described between Morgana and young Mordred, and then go here:
http://sigune.livejournal.com/93168.html#cutid1

Follow the links for "the Darkest Hour" and read the whole thing - and you will see, quite clearly, what I only just realized. The Arthur legend is, at heart, a revenge tragedy about a seriously disordered family. And young Mordred - if you read him as the instrument of his mother's revenge; there are other ways of reading him - is actually not so much a villain, as the last victim of this family. Why didn't I see this before?

Anyway, the song and the comic are both terrific, and I look forward to reactions to them both. ) BTw, the little fellow who plays Mordred is much, much closer to my idea of young Harry than Dan Radcliffe. For one thing, he is slender and actually has greenish eyes.

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