Rabbit Stew: Woxin fic

[flemmings]

Title: 'That story is not true'
Day/Theme: Feb. 16 - "Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss"
Series: Woxin changdan/The Great Revival
Character/Pairing: Gou Jian, Fan Li, Wen Zhong
Spoilers: end of series

Title from Stesichorus' Palinode for Helen, only the first three lines of which survive in Plato's dialogue the Phaedrus (/pedantry.) If the classics majors here remember that one, they'll know what the gimmick is in this one; if not, then I may hope not. Am not sanguine. This was a lovely head story that faded and died in the unforgiving light of MS Word.

Also hope I have the right general left alive at series' end.

'You never went in the benched ships'

Link, not lj-cut, to avoid lj's rich text format.
Cross-posted to woxinchangdan

Comments

[incandescens]

Oh, that is charming. Thank you!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

[paleaswater.livejournal.com]

I think it's still lovely.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

It's the perennial trouble with head stories, which are really head videos. Writing them down loses both the visual and the audio portions.

[feliciter.livejournal.com]

Ah, wonderful ^_^ The concept and execution are perfect.

(Hmm, the obverse of that old bromide 情人眼里出西施 all lovers are Xi Shi to each other, i.e. beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder?)

"The only thing stronger than a dream like that is to have the real thing by one's side. Very few men are so fortunate, but your Majesty was one of them."

;_;

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

A webpage I found while trying to track down Daji quoted something to the effect of (major rephrase) 'If you saw Xi Shi as plump, it was a charming plumpness, if thin, an elegant thinness: however you saw her she was perfect.' Oddly, this was *after* I'd decided on the reveal gimmick.

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

hmmm I thought I commented on this already..I certainly remember reading it! @__@

but...I read it again anyways!

Still pretty and I enjoyed the analogy(is that the right word here??? hmm well???)