B2MEM 2012 - March 6th

[altariel]

The number called was: O67

My cards and prompts were:
Facets of Faramir: Writer
Poetic Forms: Sonnet
Scientific achievement: Pharmacy

Dwimordene and Aliana asked what would happen if Faramir saw what Denethor saw in the palantír. But he's already seen it in his dreams.

Self-Medication

Over the years he devised many tricks to distract from the fact of imminent annihilation, the dream-brought knowledge that not even the virtuous survive the end of the world.

Music helped; fast finger-exercises transmuting conscious thought into muscle-memory. Words were better; ever-increasing mastery of complex tongues and forms. Meditations on the natural world. Rainbow sunsets to persuade him of a world beyond death.

One ash day, his strategies fall in ruins. Then she walks into the garden. If you live, he thinks, artless as a schoolboy, there is still life.

Self has limits - but beyond the self is infinite.

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