Summary: La Fille de Mélisande, as short-story sequel by Kate Mosse to the opera Pelléas et Mélisande for Midsummer Nights, airs field, forest, marine animals.
"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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| Silk-moth (Bombyx mori) worms, accepted taxonomically by Carl von Linné (Carl Linaaeus, May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778), perhaps account for satin slippers, something silken and velvet robes in La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent" [Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]). Their assumed appearance acts more aesthetically than the graveyard "worms and spiders" (Mosse:250) actualized in that short-story sequel by Kate Mosse to the Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play and the Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera Pelléas et Mélisande; "Maulbeerbaum samt Frucht," illustration of mulberry tree and free by German entomologist and scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (April 2, 1647-Jan. 13, 1717), in Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und sonderbare Blumennahrung, Band 1 (1679), Plate 1: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons |
La Fille de Mélisande short-story sequel by Kate Mosse to the opera Pelléas et Mélisande, for the Midsummer Nights collection edited by Jeanette Winterson for 2009 release, airs field, forest, marine animals.
The short-story sequel to the Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play and the Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera perhaps bears silkworms. Golaud and Miette (from Old Testament gilead, “heap of witnesses” via French Galaad, Galahad; from French miette, “crumb”) clothe themselves in velvet robes created by silkworms. The dew-damageable satin slippers that Miette, la fille de Mélisande (from French la, “the”; fille, “daughter”; de, “of”; Mélisande, “Millicent”) dons, derive from mulberry-tree leaf-digesting silkworms.
Their host white-mulberry (Morus alba) trees enumerate silk-moth worms (Bombyx mori) among field animals even as crows (Corvus spp) entrench themselves in field and forest environments.
Corvinae subfamily members fit among Allemonde (from Latin Alemannī, from Germanic Alamann-, from Germanic allaz, “all”; mann-, “people”?; from Germanic allaz, “all”; French monde, “world”?) wildlife.
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| Crows (Corvus spp), ravens (Corvus corax) and wolves (Canis lupus) adapt to one another in actual activities and perhaps therefore also in such survivalistic actions in La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent" [Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) by Kate Mosse; Sunday, May 23, 2021, image of "A lone wolf with ravens and crows" in Kuhmo, southeastern Kainuu region, Eastern Finland: Jukka Lämsä, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons |
Corvinae subfamily members fit among Allemonde (from Latin Alemannī, from Germanic Alamann-, from Germanic allaz, “all”; mann-, “people”?; from Germanic allaz, “all”; French monde, “world”?) wildlife.
Miette glimpses the sabling olive moss that guards between its overlying layer and the underlying walls of Allemonde Castle or Allemonde tower “crow’s feet cracks” (Mosse:248). An unspecified bird heads “out of the trees, the abrupt beating of its wings upon the air mirroring the rhythms of her own resolute heart” (Mosse:251). That Miette in one instance identifies something identical to a specific genus indicator and in another instance invokes the general Aves class identification indicates Allemonde-inhabiting crows.
That La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse judges hair jumbling “like a skein of silk” (Mosse:248) again justifies silkworms journeying among field, forest, marine animals.
Miette knows domestic sheep (Ovis aries) as kineticizing Allemonde fields even as they keep daily time with their “twilight lament” both “mournful bleating,” mournful “grieving” (Mosse:249).
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| Rabbits (Leporidae family) and sheep (Ovis aries) adapt to one another in actual activities and perhaps therefore also in such survivalistic actions in La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent" [Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) by Kate Mosse; Thursday, Sep. 4, 2008, image of "Rabbit warren in the tombolo," near The Braes, Isle of Skye, Scotland: Richard Dorrell, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Geograph Britain and Ireland |
Miette knows domestic sheep (Ovis aries) as kineticizing Allemonde fields even as they keep daily time with their “twilight lament” both “mournful bleating,” mournful “grieving” (Mosse:249).
Golaud’s and Mélisande’s daughter likens nightly Angelus bell-ringing and castle gate-closing to Allemonde-lodged graves even as she never leaves Allemonde lodgings in all her 18 years. She matches them with grave-mobbing spiders (Araneae order) and such graveyard-marauding worms as eel-like roundworms (Nematoda phylum), lash-like whipworms (Trichuridae family) or ribbon-like tapeworms (Cestoda class). The “cries of the sailors and the rote and the gulls” (Mosse:250) number the latter among such other seaward, setting-sun, shoreward, westward marine animals as oysters.
La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse offers rabbits, wolves and oysters overheard, perhaps observed, perhaps obtained by Miette as respectively among field, forest, marine animals.
Miette perceives forest “sighings and whisperings and chitterings” (Mosse:252); presents blood as oyster pearl-like; and pursues playing French un, deux, trois, loup (“one, two, three, wolf”).
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| Miette's mother never adjusted to Allemonde (from Latin Alemannī, from Germanic Alamann-, from Germanic allaz, “all”; mann-, “people”?; from Germanic allaz, “all”; French monde, “world”?) kingdom. She always admired areas seaward, setting sunward, shoreward, westward of Allemonde Castle. The operatic and the play heroine of the Pelléas et Mélisande prequel to the short story La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent" [Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) by Kate Mosse perhaps always adored "the cries of the sailors and the rote and the gulls" (Mosse:250) such as those adorning the Édouard Manet (Jan. 23, 1832-April 30, 1883) painting Sailing ships and seagulls (from French voiliers, "sailing ships"; et, "and"; mouettes, "seagulls"); "Sailing Ships and Seagulls," ca. 1864 oil on canvas by French modernist painter Édouard Manet (Jan. 23, 1832-April 30, 1883) : Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons |
Miette perceives forest “sighings and whisperings and chitterings” (Mosse:252); presents blood as oyster pearl-like; and pursues playing French un, deux, trois, loup (“one, two, three, wolf”).
Allemonde kingdom perhaps quarters fur-quested bears, beavers, bobcats, coyotes, foxes, lynxes, martens, muskrats, opossums and raccoons “caught fast in the metal jaws of a trap” (Mosse:253). That royal region perhaps realizes a habitat range from open fields to forested and wooded representations and minimum to maximum sea-level to 13,800-foot (4,200-meter) elevation ranges. Such scrubby and semi-scrubby shelters support 4- to 12-plus-year spans of dusk- to dawn-swooping nightjars (Caprimulginae typical-nightjar subfamily), whose chonk-chonk-chonk sounds similarize chopping or tapping wood.
The Allemonde kingdom, as territorialized in the Pelléas et Mélisande short-story sequel, La Fille de Mélisande by Kate Mosse, takes in field, forest and marine animals.
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| A lone nightjar (Caprimulgidae family), perhaps of the European species (Caprimulgus europaeus), advances through the darkening Allemonde (from Latin Alemannī, from Germanic Alamann-, from Germanic allaz, “all”; mann-, “people”?; from Germanic allaz, “all”; French monde, “world”?) ambiance. That bird vocally advises Miette (from French miette, "crumb") to alter how she anchors herself among her Allemonde associates. Crows (Corvidae family), gulls (Laridae family), nightjars (Caprimulgidae family), rabbits (Leporidae family), sheep (Bovidae family), spiders (Aranae order), wolves (Canidae family) and worms (Nematoda phylum, Trichuridae family, Cestoda class) are field, forest, marine animals attracted to royal Allemonde in La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent" [Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) by Kate Mosse; illustration of Caprimulgus europaeus in Johann Andreas Naumann, Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas, Band IV (1901), tafel 28: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons |
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Dedication
Dedication
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Silk-moth (Bombyx mori) worms, accepted taxonomically by Carl von Linné (Carl Linaaeus, May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778), perhaps account for satin slippers, something silken and velvet robes in La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent" [Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]). Their assumed appearance acts more aesthetically than the graveyard "worms and spiders" (Mosse:250) actualized in that short-story sequel by Kate Mosse to the Maurice Maeterlinck (Aug. 29, 1862-May 6, 1949) play and the Achille-Claude Debussy (Aug. 22, 1862-March 25, 1918) opera Pelléas et Mélisande; "Maulbeerbaum samt Frucht," illustration of mulberry tree and free by German entomologist and scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (April 2, 1647-Jan. 13, 1717), in Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung und sonderbare Blumennahrung, Band 1 (1679), Plate 1: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maria_Sibylla_Merian_Maulbeerbaum_samt_Frucht_plate_1.png
Crows (Corvus spp), ravens (Corvus corax) and wolves (Canis lupus) adapt to one another in actual activities and perhaps therefore also in such survivalistic actions in La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent" [Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) by Kate Mosse; Sunday, May 23, 2021, image of "A lone wolf with ravens and crows" in Kuhmo, southeastern Kainuu region, Eastern Finland: Jukka Lämsä, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_lone_wolf_with_ravens_and_crows_in_4K_HDR._07.png
Rabbits (Leporidae family) and sheep (Ovis aries) adapt to one another in actual activities and perhaps therefore also in such survivalistic actions in La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent" [Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) by Kate Mosse; Thursday, Sep. 4, 2008, image of "Rabbit warren in the tombolo," near The Braes, Isle of Skye, Scotland: Richard Dorrell, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Geograph Britain and Ireland @ https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/953376; Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rabbit_warren_in_the_tombolo_-_geograph.org.uk_-_953376.jpg
Miette's mother never adjusted to Allemonde (from Latin Alemannī, from Germanic Alamann-, from Germanic allaz, “all”; mann-, “people”?; from Germanic allaz, “all”; French monde, “world”?) kingdom. She always admired areas seaward, setting sunward, shoreward, westward of Allemonde Castle. The operatic and the play heroine of the Pelléas et Mélisande prequel to the short story La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent" [Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) by Kate Mosse perhaps always adored "the cries of the sailors and the rote and the gulls" (Mosse:250) such as those adorning the Édouard Manet (Jan. 23, 1832-April 30, 1883) painting Sailing ships and seagulls (from French voiliers, "sailing ships"; et, "and"; mouettes, "seagulls"); "Sailing Ships and Seagulls," ca. 1864 oil on canvas by French modernist painter Édouard Manet (Jan. 23, 1832-April 30, 1883) : Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%89douard_Manet_-_Sailing_Ships_and_Seagulls.jpg
A lone nightjar (Caprimulgidae family), perhaps of the European species (Caprimulgus europaeus), advances through the darkening Allemonde (from Latin Alemannī, from Germanic Alamann-, from Germanic allaz, “all”; mann-, “people”?; from Germanic allaz, “all”; French monde, “world”?) ambiance. That bird vocally advises Miette (from French miette, "crumb") to alter how she anchors herself among her Allemonde associates. Crows (Corvidae family), gulls (Laridae family), nightjars (Caprimulgidae family), rabbits (Leporidae family), sheep (Bovidae family), spiders (Aranae order), wolves (Canidae family) and worms (Nematoda phylum, Trichuridae family, Cestoda class) are field, forest, marine animals attracted to royal Allemonde in La Fille de Mélisande (from French la, "the"; fille, "daughter"; de, "of"; Mélisande, "Millicent" [Frenchified Millicent Anglicized from German amalas, “brave”; swinba, “strong” via Amalaswinba]) by Kate Mosse; illustration of Caprimulgus europaeus in Johann Andreas Naumann, Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas, Band IV (1901), tafel 28: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caprimulgus_europaeus.jpg; Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/50999258535/; No known copyright issues, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34557303
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