It's time for the big fight! Scrawled out a quick battle map for the next Desolation book. The big finale. I find these help a lot with keeping track of what's happening, even in a complex scene, not necessarily a fight. Do any of you use them?

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La gare TGV d’Aix-en-Provence, l’exemple parfait d’un aménagement raté. Un concentré de toutes les erreurs du siècle. Du béton, du verre, des champs de voitures autour, le bruit de fond permanent de l’autoroute, vidéosurveillance, travailleurs pauvres, effet de serre l’été et impossible à chauffer l’hiver, chaines de junkfood…
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Track 143: Desolation

The barren landscape after loss, when even grief has exhausted itself.

Solo viola wanders through F minor emptiness. Bass clarinet as cold wind. Isolated harp drops descending like water in a cave. 66 notes across 6:30 — the sparsest piece yet.

The silence between notes IS the desolation.

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A quotation from Victor Hugo

For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind,
Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
 
[Car pour faire un désert, Dieu, maître des vivants,
Commence par les rois et finit par les vents.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Poem (1876), “The Vanished City [La Ville Disparue],” Legend of the Ages: New Series [La Légende des siècles: La Nouvelle Série], No. 4 (1877) [tr. Carrington (1885)]

More about this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/81932/

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Hugo, Victor - Poem (1876), "The Vanished City [La Ville Disparue]," Legend of the Ages: New Series [La Légende des siècles: La Nouvelle Série], No. 4 (1877) [tr. Carrington (1885)] | WIST Quotations

For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind. [Car pour faire un désert, Dieu, maître des vivants, Commence par les rois et finit par les vents.] (Source (French))

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