Valentine's Day

[bobquasit]

Ah, the day is here. The day on which I probably have suffered more in my life than any other.

I used to console myself, when I was alone and miserable, by remembering that Valentine's Day was the commemoration of an agonizing martyrdom - which was, not coincidentally, pretty much what I felt I was going through myself.

In slow motion.

For most of my life.

Jeeze, I'm getting depressed! That was unexpected.

Damn you, Saint Valentine!

I'd better think about something else. But what? Let me see...okay, Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg. That helps.

Come to think of it, what would Valentine's Day be like if this was Majipoor?

Comments

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I've read some of the Majipoor stories that got collected into (I think) "Marjipoor Chronicles"; isn't there a "Queen of Dreams" who I suppose could cause folk to think of romance?

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

I don't remember that! Although I haven't re-read the Chronicles in a while. Still, I think I'd remember it.