Another thin place is revealed in "Agate" (Don't open till you're done!)
posted by Nick at 11:12 PM
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
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- Name: Andy Duncan
- Location: Frostburg, Maryland, United States
I'm a professor of English at Frostburg State University in the western Maryland mountains; a fiction writer whose honors include a Nebula Award, a Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and three World Fantasy Awards; a journalist since age 17; and a lifelong collector of Forteana.
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2 Comments:
I definitely know what I want my paper topic to be now...and here it is...the thought that the water (and the areas surrounding said water) is a thin area. This story is very similar to "The Trentino Kid," except that the ending isn't exactly happy. Marsha is presumably killed at the end of the story instead of having her life turned around by a near death experience on the water. I definitely want to find some other stories with this common thread, because it seems to me that there are many out there. I was also a little confused about what the seven figures (or shells or whatever they were) represent...so if anyone has any comments on the story or if they know of other stories in which water plays a major role in fantasy fiction...please...bring it on!
Given that both "The Trentino Kid" and "An Incident at Agate Beach" are short stories, it might be interesting to look at the same water-as-thin-place theme in a movie. THE SECRET OF ROAN INISH is the best movie on the theme I know of. "An Incident at Agate Beach" is interesting in comparison to Ron Howard's Tom Hanks/Daryl Hannah comedy SPLASH. But merfolk, in particular, are showing up everywhere at the multiplex lately -- in the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN movies, in LADY IN THE WATER, in AQUAMARINE. I wonder why.
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