A Bit Of Pilgrimage
Dec. 8th, 2011 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madwriterNew Words: 600 on Chapter 1 ("Those Who Came Before") Part 3 ("The Canal Builders") of Arizona. Years pass, then there's major ill-timed sabotage, and finally Kwewu realizes he has to go on a pilgrimage that, if he is found unworthy, would end in him being swallowed by the earth and never seen again.
Total Words: 45600, including a bit of trimming of previous work.
Reason For Stopping: Heading to work.
Book Year: 777.
Mammalian Assistance: None, including from Vegas, who was so cute curled up on the bed with his sister Velvet that I didn't want to disturb them.
Exercise: A neighborhood walk with Tucker, then walking down to campus.
Stimulants: Dr. Pepper.
Today's Opening Passage: Years turned, pulled along a great wheel by the stars in their spiral courses. Every spring brought new rain, softening the winter-cracked earth, drawing the plants out of the soil—some animals too who burrowed to wait out hot winters, or toads and turtles emerging to slake a months-old thirst. Every rain refreshed the canals. Each new summer brought a new year, and each year extended the canals further into what most Hohokam thought of as their land now. By the time Kwewu’s youngest children were old enough to pick up the stone hoes with their parents, and Tohbi’s oldest children were able to soften the ground with their digging sticks, the Hohokam had started a second canal due west, downriver, of Kwewu’s.
Darling Du Jour: Nothing springs out at me, except maybe the opening passage.
Non-Research / Review Books In Progress: McCrumb; Stone Spring by Stephen Baxter; How To Pick A Peach by Russ Parsons.
