@aliettedb just finished House of Binding Thorns and loved it! Have to ask - did you take any inspiration from Charles Causley’s Hawthorn White, Hawthorn Red poem for it? It popped into my head in the last chapters and fits perfectly
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Replying to @fozmeadows
Aaaaah thank you! Ive just read the poem for the first time (didn’t know it existed!) so afraid not It is a very good fit though... o,o
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Replying to @aliettedb
Did you find it online? The versions I found online were missing the last couple of verses for some reason. What a crazy coincidence though! I was sure the white hawthorn/red hawthorn imagery at the climax was referencing it!
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Replying to @fozmeadows @aliettedb
Here’s the full version just in case - the last stanza is pure Asmodeuspic.twitter.com/OARC3zBitV
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Replying to @fozmeadows
Oooh Nope the version I read was missing the last stanza It's even more appropriate lol <33
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Replying to @aliettedb
Right??? Bronze blood around a bulkhead, ie, PART OF A SHIP, loveless hearts, I just... 0.o
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Replying to @fozmeadows
SO ON POINT (I have genuinely never read that poem that I recall though, which makes it so much more appropriate if eerie lol)
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hawthorn imagery speaks to different writers through the ages, it seems :)
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Replying to @fozmeadows
:) Mine actually includes a terrible pun: the House is located in a neighbourhood of Paris called "Auteuil" which kind of sounds like Hawthorn? So it's terrible bilingual puns in addition to thorns imagery hahaha
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