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Who has the most to hide...
the one with many secrets,
or the one who's lost her story?

No, seriously, I'm working on something...

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[madralaoi.livejournal.com]

Umm, define hide and story?

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

Hide as in obfuscate in various ways.
The question was typed as much for myself to see (I'm working on a thing) as anyone else. "Story" is free for personal definition.
It's not a trick question Otter. If you have a spontaneous answer, or an answer within a context fitting your thoughts, then that's fine.

[madralaoi.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't think it was a trick question, I was just curious about the definitions. :)

The associations I'm getting is that secrets can be heavy to bear and maybe some secrets need to be hidden...but not necessarily all secrets.
I read what usuakari wrote and that was pretty much what I thought aswell and it was better expressed than I could do, so I'll stick with that, being perhaps somewhat of a copycat. ;)

I guess what we feel needs to be hidden is personal and depends on various things in the past...like, some people feel that they want to hide that they've been less than popular, and some don't.
It's perhaps about what we see ourselves as, how we see ourselves.
Sometimes we want to be stronger than we are, sometimes we want to be weaker than we are...I'm just rambling here, pay no attention to me. ;)

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

good, a personal answer, and not too elvish either.. ;)
*takes notes*

Thank you!

[usuakari.livejournal.com]

Interesting...

You don't necessarily have to hide secrets in order to keep them, so perhaps the one with many secrets does not have the most to hide. But keeping secrets is an enclosed, interior kind of thing...

The one who has lost her story might hide it out of fear or shame, I suppose... but I can't help thinking that if she were open about it, and accepting, a new story might flow in to fill the hole... so it's more of an open and external thing.

"Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes." (Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of The Ring) ;)

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

haha..if I went to the Australian hat-elves for advice, I might indeed get miserable, as it is now, I got some interesting samples to consider. There are many angles to hiding, and sometimes being open is one of them as well...

Both you and Jennix have given me a few more openings on the material for the poem I'm struggling with...

[usuakari.livejournal.com]

haha..if I went to the Australian hat-elves for advice, I might indeed get miserable, as it is now, I got some interesting samples to consider.

Heh. Hat-elves. ;) Are they a new breed? For some reason they make me think of the sidhe... not sure why...

I think I'll enjoy the finished product.

What does the inimitable Angela Carter have to sy on the subject of secrets and stories?

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

Every character in Angela Carter's stories have at least one major secret...

I figure the Australian Hat elves must be a sidhe noble house situated in Australia, sharing the Dreaming from there...
Probably nasty and superior bastards the whole bunch... ;)

[usuakari.livejournal.com]

Share? What is this share that you speak of?