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Author has written 32 stories for Shakespeare, Chronicles of Narnia, Tsubasa Chronicle, and West Side Story. Hello. in recent news Happy 50th anniversary, West Side Story! Have posted the carousel in celebration. :) fta music Prokofiev: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT7YgZ8J-PA words to live by If there is a choice, I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas. —Mstislav Rostropovich I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life. Most people never get to hear this music. Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us. Bach wrote the Cello Suites for his young wife as an exercise to help her learn the cello. But inside each note is the love we are unable to express with words. In each note of music lives every tragedy of the world and every moment of its salvation. The cellist Pablo Casals knew this. Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same. —Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter Though she was hopeless about pictures, and though she dressed so unevenly—oh, that cerise frock yesterday at church!—she must see some beauty in life, or she could not play the piano as she did. He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood. —E.M. Forster, A Room with a View "I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world that we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art." —W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. —D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. —Anais Nin I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. —Jorge Luis Borges Knowledge is the novel's only morality. Only the note that says something essential has the right to exist. —Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel Chamber music--it is difficult to explain to anyone who doesn't understand of his own accord—is the right compromise between the ego and a profound recognition of the supreme importance of teamwork. —Nathan Shaham, The Rosendorf Quartet Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. Don't you think? It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those that witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see. "People love each other for all sorts of different reasons," Roxane said. "Most of the time we're loved for what we can do rather than for who we are. It's not such a bad thing, being loved for what you can do." —Ann Patchett, Bel Canto We had been together only once, so my feelings for Ryuuichirou stopped at the smell of his hair and the sensation of the palms of his hands. Nothing more, and nothing less. —Banana Yoshimoto, Amrita Julien: You know... there were lots of things I was game for that you never said. And voila. That's how we won the game. Together...happy. And deep in concrete, we finally shared our childhood dream: the dream of a love without end. —Jeux D'enfants Faire et se taire. —Gustave Flaubert Listen: there's a hell —e. e. cummings Don't worry. The universe tends to unfold as it should. —Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and finally, the best advice on writing. ever.: You ask whether your verses are any good. You ask me. You have asked others before this. You send them to magazines. You compare them with other poems, and you are upset when certain editors reject your work. Now (since you have said you want my advice) I beg you to stop doing that sort of thing. You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple "I must," then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse. Then come close to Nature. Then, as if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose. Don't write love poems; avoid those forms that are too facile and ordinary: they are the hardest to work with, and it takes great, fully ripened power to create something individual where good, even glorious, traditions exist in abundance. So rescue yourself from these general themes and write about what your everyday life offers you; describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty - describe all these with heartfelt, silent, humble sincerity and, when you express yourself, use the Things around you, the images from your dreams, and the objects that you remember. If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place. And even if you found yourself in some prison, whose walls let in none of the world's sounds - wouldn't you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure house of memories? Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance. - And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of asking anyone whether they are good or not. Nor will you try to interest magazines in these works: for you will see them as your dear natural possession, a piece of your life, a voice from it. A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. So, dear Sir, I can't give you any advice but this: to go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept that answer, just as it is given to you, without trying to interpret it. Perhaps you will discover that you are called to be an artist. Then take the destiny upon yourself, and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside. For the creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted. But after this descent into yourself and into your solitude, perhaps you will have to renounce becoming a poet (if, as I have said, one feels one could live without writing, then one shouldn't write at all). Nevertheless, even then, this self-searching that I ask of you will not have been for nothing. Your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I can say. What else can I tell you? It seems to me that everything has its proper emphasis; and finally I want to add just one more bit of advice: to keep growing, silently and earnestly, through your whole development; you couldn't disturb it any more violently than by looking outside and waiting for outside answers to question that only your innermost feeling, in your quietest hour, can perhaps answer. —Rainer Maria Rilke, from "Letters to a Young Poet," Letter One | |||||||||
1. the carousel reviewsFifty years later, the Jets remember. Happy 50th anniversary, West Side Story!West Side Story - Rated: T - English - Friendship/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,566 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 10-18-11 - Baby John - Complete2. fell the angels » reviewsAnd in the end, what will survive of us is love. Ice and Velma, and the West Side Story that changes everything. twenty-five: the red and the black.West Side Story - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 25 - Words: 147,523 - Reviews: 67 - Updated: 7-22-11 - Published: 4-24-10 - Ice & Velma3. reel reviewsTen years down the road, Graziella knows how the movie ends but it still gets her, every time.West Side Story - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,245 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 4-22-11 - Graziella & Riff - Complete4. better days reviewsThirteen reasons why the Christmas of 1957 might not be as bad as advertised, after all. Early Christmas present for HedgehogQuill!West Side Story - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,946 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 12-22-10 - Complete5. merry christmas with love » reviewsNine different Christmases, nine different couples, nine different kinds of love. Merry Christmas!West Side Story - Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 9 - Words: 41,691 - Reviews: 41 - Updated: 7-25-10 - Published: 11-13-09 - Complete6. russian roulette reviewsChino, facing hell in the only way he knows how.West Side Story - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 936 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 7-7-10 - Chino - Complete7. for the record reviewsAn episode in the life of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald R. Bryant, as experienced by Bernice, witnessed by Clarice, and endlessly mocked by Pauline. Frenemy alert. Gee-Tar/Bernice.West Side Story - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,463 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 4-8-10 - Complete8. a john for a jane reviewsThe guy's only doing it for some doll. Thematically-related oneshots in which the Jets discover that girls can make you do some crazy things. First chapter: Riff.West Side Story - Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,479 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 2-7-109. worth the world reviewsTwenty-six characters, two hot summer days, from A to Z.West Side Story - Rated: T - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,661 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 1-31-10 - Complete10. flicker reviewsDying, it seems, isn't anything like how it looks in the movies. Riff, on endings.West Side Story - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 956 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 1-23-10 - Riff - Complete11. experiment reviewsIt's absolutely ridiculous, but as they begin the walk home, she can't stop staring at his lips. A few well-placed words from the Jet girls have Midge wondering about Mouthpiece. A year or five post-movie.West Side Story - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,559 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 1-22-10 - Mouthpiece - Complete12. passing reviewsIf he squints his eyes and pretends really hard, Riff can sort of see why Tony likes the PR girl. Response to HedgehogQuill's Riff/Maria challenge.West Side Story - Rated: T - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,343 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 1-11-10 - Riff & Maria - Complete13. a debt of honor » reviewsWhat happens when you save a very grateful Baby John from a few Emeralds? Much to his chagrin, Ice is about to find out. Hint: Stealth!Baby John. Pre-movie, Ice/Velma.West Side Story - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 2 - Words: 8,451 - Reviews: 15 - Updated: 12-5-09 - Published: 9-17-09 - Ice & Baby John - Complete14. seven kisses reviewsSeven Jet girls, and a first kiss for each. Movieverse.West Side Story - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,177 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 10-13-09 - Complete15. words left unspoken reviewsIce and Velma move past the things that don't matter and find each other on the other side. Pre-movie.West Side Story - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,033 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 10-9-09 - Ice & Velma - Complete16. her fair judgment reviewsShe is so deep underwater that she can't even see the sky. Graziella, post-movie.West Side Story - Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,394 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 10-2-09 - Graziella - Complete17. once reviewsHe downs his drinks like he does the sight of her: this is dizzying, staggering, intoxicating, like every move she makes is deliberate and designed to tantalize the nerves stretched taut across his body. The one experience Ice has before he meets Velma.West Side Story - Rated: T - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,747 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 9-17-09 - Ice - Complete18. the passing grade reviewsThere are all kinds of ways to get distracted during study hall. For Ice and Velma, this is just one of them. Rated for non-explicit, suggestive teenagers and occasional language. Pre-movie.West Side Story - Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,669 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 9-13-09 - Ice & Velma - Complete19. fireflies reviewsThis is what I remember. This is how it was. This is how we were. Before and after the rumble, as recounted by an unnamed Jet. Movieverse. Revised 12.02.09.West Side Story - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,838 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 8-3-09 - Complete20. chasing shadows reviewsSometimes, Anybodys wonders what it feels like to be pretty, and sometimes, she wishes she were. 500-word drabble on one-sided Anybodys/Ice.West Side Story - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 594 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 7-29-09 - Anybodys & Ice - Complete21. an american tragedy reviewsHe can't keep his eyes off her. It's like watching a train wreck. Because Anybodys, stupid as she is, has fallen in love. Movieverse 500-word drabble on one-sided A-Rab/Anybodys.West Side Story - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 654 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 7-22-09 - A-Rab & Anybodys - Complete22. catch the moon reviewsWhen Riff's in a bind and Tony's AWOL, he goes to Ice for help and turns out to be quite the inadvertent matchmaker. Pre-movie, Ice/Velma. Rating for a word or two and implied sexual content. Revised 5.19.10.West Side Story - Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,731 - Reviews: 11 - Published: 7-21-09 - Ice & Velma - Complete23. what no one knows » reviewshe still dreams of her, sometimes, and he wakes clutching his throat, gasping for air. because when he is with her, his chest tightens and his mind frosts and he cannot breathe. Ch. 1 Peter/Susan, Ch. 2 Edmund/Jadis. Proceed with caution, please.Chronicles of Narnia - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 2 - Words: 2,340 - Reviews: 31 - Updated: 3-26-09 - Published: 1-24-0624. Stay reviewsOn the night of her sixteenth birthday ball, Queen Lucy takes some time to talk to an old friend and is visited by the idea that, not only is he far from old, he may not be just a friend anymore. Third of a four part oneshot series on Lucy/Tumnus.Chronicles of Narnia - Rated: K - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,419 - Reviews: 27 - Published: 1-8-08 - Lucy Pevensie & Tumnus - Complete25. scarlet » reviewsfour drabbles from kurogane's perspective: one journey, so many worlds, and still he can't forget her.Tsubasa Chronicle - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 4 - Words: 1,538 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 10-9-07 - Published: 9-9-07 - Kurogane & Tomoyo - Complete26. For Once and Always » reviewsAnd for Susan, everything changes when you only have yourself and the world you've created to forget who you once were.Chronicles of Narnia - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 5 - Words: 4,546 - Reviews: 25 - Published: 5-25-06 - Susan Pevensie - Complete27. Duty reviewsThe naming of the Dawn Treader and its consequences, as seen by King Caspian the Tenth. Oneshot.Chronicles of Narnia - Rated: K - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,084 - Reviews: 17 - Published: 2-14-06 - Caspian X & Reepicheep - Complete28. How It Happened » reviewsIn which the Pevensies wreak havoc at an innocent psychiatrist's office.Chronicles of Narnia - Rated: K - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 2 - Words: 4,065 - Reviews: 50 - Updated: 2-12-06 - Published: 1-16-0629. Meditations » reviewsIt's easier to understand when you've been to Narnia, but the Pevensie parents haven't. Four chapter work with a parent and a not so young anymore child in each.Chronicles of Narnia - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Family - Chapters: 4 - Words: 3,814 - Reviews: 90 - Updated: 1-18-06 - Published: 1-12-06 - Complete30. The Eye of the Beholder reviewsTumnus and a fourteen year-old Lucy discuss beauty, older sisters, and giants stomping Tarkaans to death. Second of a four part oneshot series on Lucy/Tumnus.Chronicles of Narnia - Rated: K+ - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,345 - Reviews: 27 - Published: 1-9-06 - Lucy Pevensie & Tumnus - Complete31. St Valentine's Day reviewsLucy teaches Tumnus about friendship and that curious human celebration called Valentine's Day. First of a four part oneshot series on Lucy/Tumnus.Chronicles of Narnia - Rated: K - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 916 - Reviews: 26 - Published: 1-6-06 - Lucy Pevensie & Tumnus - Complete32. The Oberon Faerie Show reviewsA transcript of a very dysfunctional cast of Shakespearean characters caught in A Midsummer Night's Dream, as seen on the Oberon Faerie Show.Shakespeare - Rated: K - English - Humor/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,541 - Reviews: 16 - Published: 7-27-03 - Complete
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