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Monday, January 5th, 2004
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7:47p - Character motivation.
There’s no way that I’ll fit everything I want to in here the first time, but oh, well.
Some lines from Swinburne on one of his heroines, from “By the Sea-Side” (published in The Whole Music of Passion on page 179).
Once lived a woman in whom all abhorred
Sins found a resting place;
But no stain ever marred her smooth white forehead,
Or changed her queenly face.
They say she lived and smiled as children do,
And many for her sake
Died, knowing all the shames that o’er her grew
Coiled round her like a snake.
The man, they say, whose chance eyes looked upon her
Gave her his soul and died –
Ay, sinned and died for her, and called it honour,
And kept her name with pride.
So those men used to love in the far days!
Such might had women then.
( Characterization of protagonists, part one )
Yep, I’ll definitely do more on this tomorrow.
current mood:  accomplished
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