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I am really busy these weeks, so for telling everybody that I'm still alive, I will share a song, sung in Galician (again 
). The main topic is honoring old people living in rural areas. These people keep legends and stories about old times that, hopefully, young people will discover and will not forget:
The lyrics were translated by Bruno LeCathare (I hope that he doesn't mind that I am sharing here). I corrected a small error. As usual in Luar Na Lubre lyrics, they are poetry.
ECHOES FROM BEYOND
There is a whisper that moves the wind through the air
That makes the soul feel small when it's felt
There is a whisper that knows the earth and the salt
That still has a voice in which it resides
And some young lad insisting to inquire
Will discover a thousand stories
In the calm eyes of whom knew how to keep
Echoes from beyond
In his/her voice
There is to unravel
In each sentence a different song
About what was and what is coming to be
In his/her voice
The time left unforgotten
A whispering praise
In his/her voice
There can't be silence when I see you trying
To embrace the whole world at once
And so there starts to fall down
Words that leave a trail
Ancient legends about mountains, about the sea
And tales born in fireplaces
Begin to take form in front of you
Echoes from beyond
In your voice
The Light will be drawn
Casting the shadows that let us know
That there are more things than the others can see
In your voice
Ancestral pathways
Will come alive again, my dear
In your voice
). The main topic is honoring old people living in rural areas. These people keep legends and stories about old times that, hopefully, young people will discover and will not forget:The lyrics were translated by Bruno LeCathare (I hope that he doesn't mind that I am sharing here). I corrected a small error. As usual in Luar Na Lubre lyrics, they are poetry.
ECHOES FROM BEYOND
There is a whisper that moves the wind through the air
That makes the soul feel small when it's felt
There is a whisper that knows the earth and the salt
That still has a voice in which it resides
And some young lad insisting to inquire
Will discover a thousand stories
In the calm eyes of whom knew how to keep
Echoes from beyond
In his/her voice
There is to unravel
In each sentence a different song
About what was and what is coming to be
In his/her voice
The time left unforgotten
A whispering praise
In his/her voice
There can't be silence when I see you trying
To embrace the whole world at once
And so there starts to fall down
Words that leave a trail
Ancient legends about mountains, about the sea
And tales born in fireplaces
Begin to take form in front of you
Echoes from beyond
In your voice
The Light will be drawn
Casting the shadows that let us know
That there are more things than the others can see
In your voice
Ancestral pathways
Will come alive again, my dear
In your voice
A song about Poe's Annabel Lee
I feel a bit of nostalgia. I am terribly busy these days and I remember some things when I can rest for some minutes. I hope to start sending stories here soon, but this brief journal is devoted to something different. In 1987 I was in my first year in High School. In TV or in the radio a song titled Annabel Lee could be heard. It was a song by the band Radio Futura (Future radio), that disappeared in 1992. I remember that I liked it. It is sad for me that modern music made in Spain is, mainly, reggaeton-like, and I yearn for the old bands. Annabel Lee song is based in the poem with the same title by Edgar Allan Poe. Here is a link to a video with the song, with subtitles. It has subtitles in Spanish, in English with the lyrics translated and, between parentheses, the lines of Poe's poem that inspired each sentence in the lyrics. Good old times, when musicians got inspired by poems. Enjoy the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX_xUAW38no
Size of women in fantasy as a metaphor of power
This is a journal that I started to write in my mind some months ago. I came up with it when I knew about a story by Arthur C. Clarke in which a man falls in love with a gorgeous alien girl. The love becomes contempt when the man discovers that the alien girl was about 27 feet tall (9 meters).
I did not understand why a beautiful 27 feet woman could cause so much contempt, considering that Arthur C Clarke's character was previously in love with her. However, I never understood why some men are reluctant to date taller girls, although I think that this question is a different one, since in literature, most things are symbols or metaphors.
Th
About female bodies in fantasy
This is a strange journal entry for several reasons. One of them: it is related slightly to my novel, but I would like to write about things that are external to the plot. Other one, criticising some traits that I do not like about beauty and body types in women. But the reason that makes me feel that this is a "strange" journal is that I did not start to write Sails in the Distance in order to criticise the question related to extremely thin women as the only possible beauty standard, but Neivria became an involuntary protest against that.
This journal was conceived after watching a news in TV. A very famous brand or model agency presented
Sense of wonder in fantasy and a Twitter tip
I will start this entry with the twitter tip. If you use Twitter for promoting something, you could consider to create your own "hashtag". In that way, if you post one tweet at day using your hashtag, if you press on it in one of your tweets, you will find a number of tweets about it. For instance, for my novel:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/sailsdistance?src=hash
This is a lot of information about the thing that you wish to promote that you can share in other pages.
In connection with sense of wonder, I think that a very important thing when you create fantasy worlds is pay attention to the "wonders". In the real world, you can find wonders
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Lovely song and lyrics. A haunting notion about how it's only by listening to such voices as have knowledge of the legends and stories that they are passed downwards and kept alive. Thanks for sharing! 