Ice and Horses and Hauling Logs
...wherein I actually discuss music, something you will almost never see me do.
So, I like the group Great Big Sea, which does Newfoundland traditional music, and some music that could be described as Celtic and some popular stuff. Their latest album, The Hard and the Easy is very much Newfoundland traditional and I like it.
However, there are two (count 'em, two!) songs on this album about horses that haul logs out onto the ice and and the ice breaks and they drown (there may actually be more than two because I haven't listened carefully to every lyric in every song, but there are definitely two of them).
I can't help thinking if this were an anthology, the editor would be writing back to someone saying, "I'm sorry, although yours is well-written, we've already bought a 'horse hauling logs falls through thin ice and drowns' story for this anthology."
Comments
Yes, but if it were a Carol Emshwiller collection there would have been three "horse hauling logs falls through thin ice and drowns" stories.
:)
Posted by: chance | December 29, 2005 02:14 PM
I am now tempted to write a horse hauling logs falls through thin ice and drowns story, but I am too soft-hearted to drown the horse (and it isn't the danged horse's fault it had be be on thin ice hauling logs anyway--I would want the man in charge to be the one drowning).
Posted by: debco | December 29, 2005 08:04 PM
make it a demon horse and it can come back and eat the person who drove him across the thin ice.
Posted by: chance | December 30, 2005 07:21 AM