Martin Luther King, Jr Day Holiday
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to all...
If you live in the Los Angeles area, pick up a copy of RSVP News, December 2007 issue, where can be found a blurb about The Twelfth Window. Props again to Pam Broussard on that! If you received an eblast from BCBP, thank you for visiting www.12thwindow.com and this blog. I promise you that you will enjoy The Twelfth Window immensely, and I'm not just saying that as the author. I'm saying that as someone who reads voraciously and considers herself a Christian.
I said in the last entry that I would break down each chapter of the book here. So here goes:
The prologue was first inspired by a stained-glass window that I saw two Christmases ago in a church in northern Virginia, and I thought it politic to use the feeling I experienced from seeing the winter sun shine through that window, a depiction of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane.
The mention of how Lisa's temple feels to her in winter and summer months is the drawing from my direct experience of the same sentiments that I had in a large cathedral in northern Baltimore, off Charles Street not too far south of I-695.
Lisa's religious name, Lisare, is purposely an anagram of the word Israel. I set the stage for the story being a true allegory and true fantasy (I am pretty sure that the name Lisare is as fantasy-like a name anyone could come up with). There is another allusion to a passage in Revelation about the name on the white stone that only God and the owner of the stone know. This is covered in the passage of the prologue where Lisa considers her religious name a secret name.
Finally, the title of the prologue matches the carving inside of the ring on the back cover of the book. I'm old-school; I appreciate books that are a complete presentation from cover to cover. The easier to lose oneself in the story, I say.
Off to bed... well, to bed and watch the rest of Dreamgirls on cable TV.
If you live in the Los Angeles area, pick up a copy of RSVP News, December 2007 issue, where can be found a blurb about The Twelfth Window. Props again to Pam Broussard on that! If you received an eblast from BCBP, thank you for visiting www.12thwindow.com and this blog. I promise you that you will enjoy The Twelfth Window immensely, and I'm not just saying that as the author. I'm saying that as someone who reads voraciously and considers herself a Christian.
I said in the last entry that I would break down each chapter of the book here. So here goes:
The prologue was first inspired by a stained-glass window that I saw two Christmases ago in a church in northern Virginia, and I thought it politic to use the feeling I experienced from seeing the winter sun shine through that window, a depiction of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane.
The mention of how Lisa's temple feels to her in winter and summer months is the drawing from my direct experience of the same sentiments that I had in a large cathedral in northern Baltimore, off Charles Street not too far south of I-695.
Lisa's religious name, Lisare, is purposely an anagram of the word Israel. I set the stage for the story being a true allegory and true fantasy (I am pretty sure that the name Lisare is as fantasy-like a name anyone could come up with). There is another allusion to a passage in Revelation about the name on the white stone that only God and the owner of the stone know. This is covered in the passage of the prologue where Lisa considers her religious name a secret name.
Finally, the title of the prologue matches the carving inside of the ring on the back cover of the book. I'm old-school; I appreciate books that are a complete presentation from cover to cover. The easier to lose oneself in the story, I say.
Off to bed... well, to bed and watch the rest of Dreamgirls on cable TV.
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