Interesting timing

[ffutures]

Last night I reached the start of the big fight scene in my Thor story, and decided to finish for the night just after Thor summoned Mjolnir.

About thirty seconds after I shut down the computer a huge thunderstorm started, and continued on well into the night, some of the brightest and most spectacular lightning I can remember in recent years.

And that was weird - as I typed the previous paragraph we had another sudden brief downpour. Obviously Thor is trying to tell me something. Here's hoping it's a good omen for the rest of the story!

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[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

Had a big storm here in the early hours - I'd just turned the light off to go to sleep, about 1 a.m.

I've been relistening to Wagner's Ring cycle, and I kept on thinking of the end of The Rhinegold, where Donner, Wagner's equivalent of Thor, swings his hammer to summon the thunder and lightning so that the Rainbow bridge can be constructed into Valhalla so the gods can enter.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Well, that isn't quite what's happening in my story, but I like the idea - odd that it isn't how Thor summons the bridge in the movies!

[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

:-)

Wagner was as much one for tinkering with the story as Hollywood is.

Here's the libretto:

http://www.rwagner.net/libretti/rheingold/e-rhein-s4.html

And this is what Donner sings (in an rather stilted translation).

A sultry haze
hangs in the air;
its dull weight
oppresses me;
I will collect the pale clouds
into a lightning-storm;
that will sweep the sky clear.






Heda! Heda! Hedo!
Come to me, mists!
Vapours, to me!
Donner, your master,
summons you to his host.



As I swing my hammer,
hover here,
misty moisture,
hanging haze!
Donner, your master,
summons you to his host.
Heda! Heda! Hedo!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Must have been busy last night...