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Mason Dixon, by B73
louisev:
--- Quote from: twistedude on October 13, 2006, 02:01:25 am ---But the end is so..joyful...
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It sounds like some folks were misled by this commentary.
Readers please be advised: "Mason Dixon" is NOT a happy ending story!
twistedude:
It's the reincarnation thing that is joyful, not the lives of that particular Ennis and Jack...sorry if I made you all think I am an idiot; I'm not.
However, some people seem to have this non-fact firmly fixed in their minds...
Hey--anyone read "Rusted Pipe" yet?
twistedude:
Yes I sobbed too--but the deaths of the protagonists is NOT the end of the story:
This is the end of the story:
There are some things which can never be divided; like the land that runs from the North to the South (sic) of our country, the land falsely demarcated by the Mason Dixon line but yet will always be one, just as it always has been, long before the invisible line had been drawn; had always been that way and always would be until the end of time.
The Civil War was not the first time the principals of our story had come together, nor would it be the last. Sometimes the reunion was joyful and serene, sometimes not.; this time in the fields of war in the East; that time, in the buffalo plains of the Midwest; the next time, perhaps, on a mountain peak in the Big Horns; and so on.
The grass does remember the lives of those who fell upon it; what remembers too is a stream bank in Georgia where, over a century ago the reunion of that which cannot be separated had occurred; and here and there, across the land, the memory does linger like grave markers within the soil and the roots of the meeting of two souls which which, when brought together at last restore balance in the universe, and, for a while, all is right in the world."
Now if that is not flat out joyous, I don't know what is.
littleguitar:
--- Quote from: twistedude on October 16, 2006, 10:01:40 pm ---Yes I sobbed too--but the deaths of the protagonists is NOT the end of the story:
This is the end of the story:
There are some things which can never be divided; like the land that runs from the North to the South (sic) of our country, the land falsely demarcated by the Mason Dixon line but yet will always be one, just as it always has been, long before the invisible line had been drawn; had always been that way and always would be until the end of time.
The Civil War was not the first time the principals of our story had come together, nor would it be the last. Sometimes the reunion was joyful and serene, sometimes not.; this time in the fields of war in the East; that time, in the buffalo plains of the Midwest; the next time, perhaps, on a mountain peak in the Big Horns; and so on.
The grass does remember the lives of those who fell upon it; what remembers too is a stream bank in Georgia where, over a century ago the reunion of that which cannot be separated had occurred; and here and there, across the land, the memory does linger like grave markers within the soil and the roots of the meeting of two souls which which, when brought together at last restore balance in the universe, and, for a while, all is right in the world."
Now if that is not flat out joyous, I don't know what is.
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thanks for posting that, that is some very very beautiful writing... I've been meaning to reread the entire story so this was nice. :D
Joyous is still not really the word I would use... hopeful maybe? I'm not sure. The ending (not the deaths but the section you quoted, I understood that you meant this part) is bittersweet for me. Beautiful, but not joyous, IMO.
t_wistfulheart:
The next step would be to read Maggie's story entitled Portrait of a Farmer - and it's second part intitled Unseasonable Storm. If you liked ending of Mason Dixon that was posted on here, then some elements in Unseasonable Storm will have very special meaning for you. :)
http://b73.livejournal.com/?skip=20 Links to Portrait of a Farmer chapters can be found there.
http://b73.livejournal.com/ And links to Unseasonable Storm on her current LJ page.
Don't miss these! Heck, don't miss any of Maggie's stories. BUT... these are especially good in conjunction with Mason Dixon.
Karen
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