Summary: Field and forest plants abound in the short story La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse for the Midsummer Nights collection edited by Jeanette Winterson.
"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.
“And there’s many people out there who want us to move to the next planet already and I’m like, hang on, let’s not give up on this planet yet," William, Prince of Wales, July 31, 2023, Sorted Food food truck, London, England, United Kingdom.
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| Only juniper bushes abide as genus-named among anonymous field and forest plants in La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse, short-story sequel, to the Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera and to the Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play Pelléas et Mélisande, for the Midsummer Nights collection edited for 2009 release by Jeanette Winterson. Perhaps they abound as a common juniper species, common juniper (Juniperus communis) accepted into scientific nomenclature in 1753 by Carl von Linné (Carl Linnaeus, May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778); Sunday, June 10, 2012, image of massive juniper trees at Les Planeresses, Walloon Region, Liège Province, southeastern Belgium: BUFO8, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons |
Field and forest plants abound in the short story La Fille de Mélisande, as Pelléas et Mélisande sequel, by Kate Mosse for the Midsummer Nights collection edited in 2009 by Jeanette Winterson.
The short story La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent"), as Pelléas et Mélisande sequel, bares no plant-species names. Yet Kate Mosse's short story from Achille-Claude Debussy's (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera and Maurice Maeterlinck's (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play configures terrestrial plants. Miette (from French miette, "crumb"), Golaud's (from Old Testament gilead, "heap of witnesses" via French Galaad, Galahad) and Mélisande's daughter, discerns ground- and wall-dwelling grass blades.
Green graying to twilight-blackened trees embellish green-shadowed forests even as juniper bushes and twisted undergrowth ensconce themselves near Allemonde (from Germanic allaz, “all”; mann-, “people”?) woods.
Cotton, esparto, flax, hemp, jute, manila and straw perhaps furnish Miette her royal fans and paper even as mulberry-tree leaf-fed silkworms perhaps fashion her satin slippers.
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| Miette (from French miette, "crumb"), as Mélisande's (from Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba) daughter, accepts female-accommodating paper fans and ribbons, satin slippers and velvet robes. Dress, hair and slipper ribbons and paper fans acclaim cotton or jute non-native ancestry away from the perhaps European origins of the short story La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent"), as Pelléas et Mélisande sequel by Kate Mosse for the Midsummer Nights collection edited by Jeanette Winterson. Fan- and ribbon-makers acclaim Carl von Linné- (Carl Linnaeus, May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778) acclaimed white jute (Corchorus capsularis) more than his scientific nomenclature-acclaiming wild jute (Corchorus olitorius); Beklädnadsväxter, in Nordisk familjebok, vol. 2 (1904): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons |
Cotton, esparto, flax, hemp, jute, manila and straw perhaps furnish Miette her royal fans and paper even as mulberry-tree leaf-fed silkworms perhaps fashion her satin slippers.
Her father, Golaud (from Old Testament gilead, “heap of witnesses” via French Galaad, Galahad), perhaps gets his royal velvet robes from those same mulberry-tree leaf-gallivanting silkworms. Perhaps Miette had ribbons, honed by those same mulberry-tree leaf-harvesting, from those same cotton or jute field plants, for happenings other than her 18 hapless birthdays. The day individually inspiring Golaud and Miette to itinerate amidst and past emerald weeds, environmental health-indicative lichen, sabling olive moss, is that birth- and death-invoking day.
Perhaps Allemonde sheep-jubilated barley, corn, hay, legume and silage join forb, grassy, leafy-bush, leafy-tree field and forest plants in La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse.
Allemonde Castle keeps within its walls Golaud and Miette and those whose candle-making knowledge kindles keeping private rooms, royal corridors and shared rooms evening- and night-lighted.
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| Satin slippers, perhaps something silk, velvet robes accommodate as royal accoutrements Miette in her daily activities even as velvet robes accoutre Mélisande's husband and Miette's father, Golaud (from Old Testament gilead, "heap of witnesses" via French Galaad, Galahad). White mulberry trees (Morus alba), with their silkworm-accommodating leaves, achieve acclimatized areas, outside ancestral China and India. So perhaps they achieved such acclimatization in Allemonde kingdom (via Latin Alemannī, from Germanic allaz, “all”; mann-, “people”?; from Germanic allaz, "all"; French monde, "world"?); Monday, Oct. 9, 2017, image of trail shaded by white mulberry trees (Morus alba) in Mèze, Hérault, Southern France: Christian Ferrer, CC BY 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons |
Allemonde Castle keeps within its walls Golaud and Miette and those whose candle-making knowledge kindles keeping private rooms, royal corridors and shared rooms evening- and night-lighted.
Miette likens red to what leads to death, to “petals pulled from a rose, strewn on the cobbled stones of a garden no longer tended” (Mosse:251). Perhaps royal gardens messy with cultivation-maintained, wild-meandering red roses minus many petals, mustering maximum nectar-tube openings manifest floral nectar for honeyed makeovers in bee honey stomachs. Perhaps that red-rose nectar niched in bee honey stomachs nestled as candle-netting beeswax in Allemonde Castle (from Germanic Alamann- via Germanic allaz, “all”; French monde, “world”?).
Perhaps the Pelléas et Mélisande sequel, La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse, offers cherry, maple, rosewood, spruce and willow trees among field and forest plants.
Miette presents herself as paralleling the vibrational possibility of “an open string on a violin” (Mosse:251) in pondering possible pursuits that presage poorly for previous patterns.
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| The "cobbled stones of a garden no longer tended" (Mosse:251) on Allemonde royal grounds (via Latin Alemannī, from Germanic allaz, “all”; mann-, “people”?; from Germanic allaz, "all"; French monde, "world"?) acquire red-rose petals. Perhaps red-rose nectar as bee honey-stomach beeswax acquits itself in candle-adorned evening and night rituals along Allemonde Castle corridors and at Allemonde Castle private and public rooms; Saturday, Sep. 8, 2007, 22:25,image of "bougies rouges" (red candles): Jonathan M (Absolutecars), CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons |
Miette presents herself as paralleling the vibrational possibility of “an open string on a violin” (Mosse:251) in pondering possible pursuits that presage poorly for previous patterns.
The aforementioned five trees quarter wood quintessential to violin-making even as spear-quality ash-tree wood quickens “the memory of metal and spear” and of “hunting accidents” (Mosse:252). Perhaps the royal grounds realize regular rearrangements of cultivated and wild green leafy and root vegetables for all the rabbits “seeking cover in the undergrowth” (Mosse:251). Perhaps they similarly shelter such land birds as beetle-, cicada-, fly-, moth-swallowing nightjars and such sea birds as amphibian-, berry-, bird-, fish-, grain-, mammal-, reptile-swallowing gulls.
The short story La Fille de Mélisande, as Pelléas et Mélisande sequel by Kate Mosse, tempts non-royal and royal trekkers with purposeful field and forest plants.
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| Cherry-, maple-, rosewood-, spruce- and willow-tree woods traditionally act as violin-amenable woods even as ash-tree woods traditionally act as spear-amicable wood. Ash-, spruce- and willow-tree woods sometimes act as spear- and violin-amicable woods. Perhaps adaptable common-ash trees (Fraxinus excelsior), addressed taxonomically by Carl von Linné (Carl Linnaeus, May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778), actualized respective military and musical memories behind Golaud's "memory of metal and spear" (Mosse:252) and Miette's moving like "an open string on a violin" (Mosse:251); Thursday, May 24, 2007, 17:11, image of Fraxinus excelsior, Parc du domaine d'Ardenne, Houyet, Belgique: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons |
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Only juniper bushes abide as genus-named among anonymous field and forest plants in La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse, short-story sequel, to the Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera and to the Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play Pelléas et Mélisande, for the Midsummer Nights collection edited for 2009 release by Jeanette Winterson. Perhaps they abound as a common juniper species, common juniper (Juniperus communis) accepted into scientific nomenclature in 1753 by Carl von Linné (Carl Linnaeus, May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778); Sunday, June 10, 2012, image of massive juniper trees at Les Planeresses, Walloon Region, Liège Province, southeastern Belgium: BUFO8, CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malmedy_-_genévrière_des_Planeresses.JPG
Miette (from French miette, "crumb"), as Mélisande's (from Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba) daughter, accepts female-accommodating paper fans and ribbons, satin slippers and velvet robes. Dress, hair and slipper ribbons and paper fans acclaim cotton or jute non-native ancestry away from the perhaps European origins of the short story La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent"), as Pelléas et Mélisande sequel by Kate Mosse for the Midsummer Nights collection edited by Jeanette Winterson. Fan- and ribbon-makers acclaim Carl von Linné- (Carl Linnaeus, May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778) acclaimed white jute (Corchorus capsularis) more than his scientific nomenclature-acclaiming wild jute (Corchorus olitorius); Beklädnadsväxter, in Nordisk familjebok, vol. 2 (1904): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beklädnadsväxter,_Nordisk_familjebok.png
Satin slippers, perhaps something silk, velvet robes accommodate as royal accoutrements Miette in her daily activities even as velvet robes accoutre Mélisande's husband and Miette's father, Golaud (from Old Testament gilead, "heap of witnesses" via French Galaad, Galahad). White mulberry trees (Morus alba), with their silkworm-accommodating leaves, achieve acclimatized areas, outside ancestral China and India. So perhaps they achieved such acclimatization in Allemonde kingdom (via Latin Alemannī, from Germanic allaz, “all”; mann-, “people”?; from Germanic allaz, "all"; French monde, "world"?); Monday, Oct. 9, 2017, image of trail shaded by white mulberry trees (Morus alba) in Mèze, Hérault, Southern France: Christian Ferrer, CC BY 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trees_and_trail,_Mèze_cf01.jpg
The "cobbled stones of a garden no longer tended" (Mosse:251) on Allemonde royal grounds (via Latin Alemannī, from Germanic allaz, “all”; mann-, “people”?; from Germanic allaz, "all"; French monde, "world"?) acquire red-rose petals. Perhaps red-rose nectar as bee honey-stomach beeswax acquits itself in candle-adorned evening and night rituals along Allemonde Castle corridors and at Allemonde Castle private and public rooms; Saturday, Sep. 8, 2007, 22:25,image of "bougies rouges" (red candles): Jonathan M (Absolutecars), CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Absolute_bougies_01.jpg
Cherry-, maple-, rosewood-, spruce- and willow-tree woods traditionally act as violin-amenable woods even as ash-tree woods traditionally act as spear-amicable wood. Ash-, spruce- and willow-tree woods sometimes act as spear- and violin-amicable woods. Perhaps adaptable common-ash trees (Fraxinus excelsior), addressed taxonomically by Carl von Linné (Carl Linnaeus, May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778), actualized respective military and musical memories behind Golaud's "memory of metal and spear" (Mosse:252) and Miette's moving like "an open string on a violin" (Mosse:251); Thursday, May 24, 2007, 17:11, image of Fraxinus excelsior, Parc du domaine d'Ardenne, Houyet, Belgique: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fraxinus_excelsior_-_Ardenne_1b.JPG
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