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Author has written 28 stories for Worst Witch, Phantom of the Opera, Sleepy Hollow, Harry Potter, Merlin, Fairy Tales, Commander in Chief, and Rose of Versailles. Instead of giving you the long and tiring story of how I got into fanfiction (which isn’t different from anybody elses’), I shall give you the opportunity to read one of the finest texts that were ever written upon the noble subject of art: “The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is arts aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of Romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything. Even true things can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything. Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor’s craft is the type. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. (Oscar Wilde, Preface to ‘The Picture Of Dorian Gray’)” | |||||||||
1. Carthaginian Romance: metaphor, broken reviewsSometimes, Girodelle likes to dream. She’s always reading, in his dream. She once said she liked the Aeneid, and he likes to picture her holding the well-worn copy his father gave him when he was a boy.Rose of Versailles - Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 541 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 6-16-09 - Complete2. I am alive reviews‘She never smiles’, say your eyes. ‘That can’t be right.’ ‘She’s all in black’, that are your thoughts. ‘She mourns the life she has not had.’ I merely smile at this.Worst Witch - Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 170 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 4-8-07 - Complete3. The Price of Keeping A Secret reviewsThe Price of keeping a Secret can be so very high ...Sleepy Hollow - Rated: M - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 99 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-22-07 - Complete4. We are the President reviewsSet right after Rubie Dubidoux and the Brown Bound Express.Commander in Chief - Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 870 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 10-14-065. Stones reviewsDead. Killed by human hands, just like everything.Merlin - Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 5-19-06 - Complete6. Dying reviewsSo many deaths around her.Merlin - Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 5-17-06 - Complete7. Does it hurt? reviewsHallmark's Merlin Does it hurt to watch me die?Merlin - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 34 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 4-30-06 - Complete8. Standards reviewsYou cannot judge everything by the same standards. But if you do, the outcome might be fatal.Merlin - Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 474 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 2-6-06 - Complete9. The Path » reviewsThere was a path ... a hidden path ... walked on by the strangest of creatures ... the path existed only in the mind of those who searched for it ... let me tell you about this path ...Fairy Tales - Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 4 - Words: 1,576 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 1-25-06 - Published: 11-6-0510. Merlin Knows reviewsMerlin knows is a very popular phrase. But how much does Merlin know? And how much does he want to know? Let's hear his opinion ...Harry Potter - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 583 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 11-24-05 - Complete11. Fallen » reviewsHat Madame Giry wirklich den Schauplatz des Geschehens verlassen,nachdem sie den Vicomte zu Erik führte? Und was hat Erik vor?Phantom of the Opera - Rated: K - German - General - Chapters: 6 - Words: 3,382 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-6-05 - Published: 7-14-05 - Madame Giry & Erik12. Ever Dream reviewsIn the first night after Mab's defeat, Merlin dreams of Ambrosia. In the second, he dreams of Nimue. In the third, there is no love left to dream of ... or so he thinksMerlin - Rated: K - English - Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 756 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 10-19-05 - Complete13. Christabel reviewsIn which we learn of Severus Snape's true incitements ...Harry Potter - Rated: K - English - Drama/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,025 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 10-10-05 - Severus S. - Complete14. Gedicht eines toten Jungen reviewsNach dem Feuer denkt das Phantom über seine einzige wahre Liebe nach. KEIN EC, kein EOW, kein slashPhantom of the Opera - Rated: K - German - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 474 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-6-05 - Erik - Complete15. Dead Boy's Poem reviewsAfter the Fire, the Phantom ponders upon his one true love. NO EC, no EOW, no slashPhantom of the Opera - Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 741 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 9-15-05 - Erik - Complete16. Those were the days » reviewsSequel to 'A Dance to the Music of time'. After dancing alone in the night, Madame Giry finds a rose waiting in her room. The second journey to the past beginns.Phantom of the Opera - Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,893 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 8-16-05 - Published: 8-4-05 - Madame Giry & Erik - Complete17. Das war die Zeit reviewsFortsetzung von 'Ein Tanz zur Musik der Zeit'. Nchdem sie nachts allein getanzt hat, findet Madame Giry eine Rose in ihrem Zimmer. Die zweite Reise in die Vergangenheit beginnt ...Phantom of the Opera - Rated: K - German - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 784 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8-11-0518. Ein Tanz zur Musik der Zeit reviewsWarum liegen Madame Giry's alte Spitzenschuhe noch immer auf ihrem Tisch? Was will sie damit?Phantom of the Opera - Rated: K - German - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,013 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 7-15-05 - Madame Giry - Complete19. A Dance to the Music of Time reviewsWhy are Madame Giry's old pointe shoes still lying on her desk? What does she want with them?Phantom of the Opera - Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 968 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 7-9-05 - Madame Giry - Complete20. Revenge » reviewsComplete! What if Lady Van Tassel had played false at the Tree of the Dead? What if it had all been planned?Sleepy Hollow - Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 6 - Words: 3,264 - Reviews: 19 - Updated: 6-27-05 - Published: 6-5-05 - Complete21. Die Erinnrung kommt zurück reviewsWie fühlst du dich, wenn du dastehst, und vor deinen Augen wird deine Vergangenheit verkauft?Phantom of the Opera - Rated: K - German - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 575 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 6-23-05 - Madame Giry - Complete22. Happily Ever After reviewsImagine Lady Van Tassel had gotten her revenge ... What would her life be like? ...THIS IS PURE NONSENSE!Sleepy Hollow - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 534 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 6-2-05 - Complete23. Witchcraft reviewsSongfickindastuff. Lady Van Tassel on the night of the Constables arrival.Sleepy Hollow - Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 684 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 5-29-05 - Complete24. Summer Solstice » reviewsWhat do you think Enid will find out when she follows a mysterious person out into the forest in the middle of the night? UP FOR ADOPTION!Worst Witch - Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 11 - Words: 4,302 - Reviews: 21 - Updated: 5-23-05 - Published: 12-2-0425. Traps » reviewsComplete! Did Madame Giry really leave the scene after she left the Vicomte on the staircase? And what is Erik up to?Phantom of the Opera - Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 6 - Words: 3,863 - Reviews: 15 - Updated: 5-14-05 - Published: 3-28-05 - Madame Giry & Erik - Complete26. I Remember reviewsWhat does it feel like to stand and watch your past being sold? most likely oneshotPhantom of the Opera - Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 566 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 5-9-05 - Madame Giry - Complete27. Behind the Shadow reviewsA candle can inspire unexpected thoughts ... oneshot!Worst Witch - Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 291 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 1-16-05 - Complete28. Watching The Sunrise reviewsHb watching the sunrise.Worst Witch - Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 298 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 10-3-04 - Complete