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by The Royal Kingdom of Quebec » Tue Feb 02, 2021 3:15 am
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The Renaissance Review of Books
Confessions, First Love and Recovery, of a Posthumous Novel
By Arsene Pineau Kim
OCTOBER 9, 2067
MONCTON, ACADIE - Asher Chania Lundrigan, 1st Earl Lundrigan, 3rd Baron Chania of Vdara, the finest writer of his generation that's still ongoing and present in his writing, was the youngest laureate of Royal Society Prize in Literature in 2060. The craftsman of prose in both short and long form, his works have included English-language novels The Death of A Fratire Man (2049), All Hallows at the End of Toji (2051), Orestes-Erigone (2053), Gwangmoo 1958 (2065), and the first four books of Korean-language trilogy In Retrieval of Our Past series, as well as four short story collections also written in English.
Befitting his massive bibliography was the life of a challenged man, whose life was one of adventures and unusual circumstances. Born in Quebec City where he held little childhood memories, he had lived several years beyond the Interrealm Portal before returning to spend a decade in idyllic settings of Midtown Kingston. After reading history and Korean language and literature at St. Croix, where he had studied under late Margarita Beckett and Tequilian shaman-philosopher Isabel Jurado, he worked as a journalist in Grearia, Cassadaigua, and then in Quebec City under The Taegukgi, before finding his way to the novel.
Unstoppable and productive at all times, Lord Lundrigan was at his finest as a novelist until his death in January this year. While concealing his political opinions, he saw himself more as a moralist, once recalling famously in an interview following the awarding, 'I have written my novels as epistolary memoirs, folktales or lesson manuals. A lot of it involves reflections, regrets and of course, confessions to those whom you love the most.'
Thus, as a moralist with his familiarity into all forays of surrealism, neo-classicism and modernism, Lord Lundrigan found himself firmly entrenched within the establishment, with strong faith in young educators and writers he had seen as promising in all quadrants of life. While not holding a literary school or mouvement of his own, something he found to be dangerous in principle, Lord Lundrigan found himself everywhere and nowhere at same time. Since his marriage and entrenchment into the seaside village of Saint-John-Upon-Battersea, Lord Lundrigan became a devout observer of Anglicanism.
While he exhibited his moralistic views less in his life, what began his career was arguably the most punitive piece of his career. His debut novel, The Death of a Fratire Man (2048), was a fascinating hit in the booksellers for its surrealist view of punishment of unnecessary, excessive behaviours his 'male heroes' display in contemporary literature, to the point where it has been misunderstood by many college students of current generation as a first-year morals textbook.
In it there were shades of his own reflections there, befitting of a man who for rest of his life was blessed by the love of his wife, Lady Eileen (best known by those abroad as singer-songwriter Plongeon), and whose themes of atonement and punishment coexisted in equilibrium unlike that of his contemporaries. In time for the release of the book, which had coincided earlier with the arrival of his daughter, Claire Athene, Lord Lundrigan moved from Quebec City to Saint-John-Upon-Battersea, where his in-laws and their family all resided on the Bay of Fundy.
Lord Lundrigan's posthumous novel, Confessions, was written in Korean over last eight years of his life and released earlier this year. A work commonly known to those around him as the novel of scenaries and sketches, Confessions was the work Lord Lundrigan had in mind as his farewell. Of course, the reasons behind its release this year, when the final manuscript of 'The Ophelic Coda', the final book of In Retrieval of Our Past series, was postponed for two years, remains unclear.
It was stated on Lord Lundrigan's 2064 lecture, 'The Aesthetics of a Quebecois Writer's Moral Progress', which he gave at St. Croix, that he had intentions to publish a particular favourite piece of his sometime in the next half-decade. While he declined to mention on the Q&A session on what event that may have influenced then 43 year old, at the height of the fame, to consider a prospective coda, one can wonder. His longtime friend and godfather of his daughter, the president of Quebec Foundation, Marc-Andre Pyo, writes in a brief introduction that 'it is a reflection into the late Earl's thoughts towards sacrilege, a hero's journey mixed with that of the questions that lie within the Book of Job.' One thing Mr. Pyo, high school and St. Croix classmate of his, mentions here is that Lord Lundrigan's sufferings and losses, which he self-inflicted upon as necessary, may have been best way to put it forth...
by Quebec and Shingoryeo » Sat Feb 20, 2021 2:04 am
by Quebec and Shingoryeo » Thu Feb 25, 2021 2:42 am
The Explanation, or What a man should atone by?
Also titled as The Epilogue to I Run To You'
We have received many enquiries from all, both strangers and beloved ones, asking us to explain what we think of the latest season of The Wanderer's Guide To Somewhere titled 'I Run To You'. While we are far from certain that any response, however short or long, would be enough, we will do our best to cover what would be essential to the late Earl and Countess's story, and what we should be looking for as we approach the conclusion.
We wanted to start by regretfully pointing out, that many readers of the series, but especially on its most recent season, that among our readership there has been particular interest in the matters both lewd and wild, to the point where all they see, even in the most heartbreaking lines, is a decadent thought. This problem has become such a plague that the ability to read between the lines, and identify the internal struggles, have become the litmus test to determine a good reader and a bad reader of the late Earl's journeys. Young people, whose sexual deprivation and inability to understand the beauty of days long past are far too evident, establish the opening episodes of debauchery as an acceptable setup to enact their wildest fantasies, while others have misunderstood the late Earl and the Countess's endless love because of the former's mistakes.
We would like to point that this is not good, because it is never right that one man's self-imposed purgatory, first begun by his tragic March break vacation and the subsequent time spent in hell to keep his beloved safe from his fears, should be replicated in any shape or form by others. This applies especially to many of so-called emulators, whose behaviour on their mouseholes would be no less of bastardisation to to our ancestors’ Notes from the Underground.
The simplest conclusion from this, of course, is that it is to simply not fall into those temptations that late Earl Lundrigan had fallen into. It is never about that to start with, and a good reader would know that too.And in order to avoid facing said issues, it is important to recognise yourself as a naturally moral being, whose ways may have been led astray, but always has a plan to return to where it belongs. Whether the eventual destination be in the arms of their lover, walking their nephews and grandchildren to school on a Monday morning, or the duty that calls upon the sound of Bugle, does not matter. It never did, it never does, and it never will.
But, in order to be committed, a good reader of late Earl's life must be aware of his surroundings, apologise with no fear, and ultimately be brave with what his heart thinks is right. They must always think ahead with their plans, be courteous to those who deserve respect, and be confident when it comes to women. They must remember the threads of childhood and inspirations that will guide their lives all along, especially as they attempt to make their way back home.
Any good reader of his storied life and his works, would find in every page dozens of proofs that would agree with said statement.
Secondly, in the contemporary society, especially in terms of the life of debauchery as not only an acceptable element of the elite's functioning, but to be encouraged by the camaraderie in both workplace and in our schools, we may have come to underappreciated the importance of the faithfulness essential in the daily lives of lovers.
It is not a good sign, and our basic morals would tell us that they would be considered unacceptable in the society. But, in order to understand our self-disgust at said immoral practices practiced by our neighbours and friends, it is necessary to view the situation with a punishment as a necessary device. The guilty party should be punished through the series of emotional and mental trials assigned by their beloved ones, not through their betrayals or abandonments but through stern reminders and familial embargoes. It is necessary that the violation of the lover's duties, expected of a man either through the natural expectations of his faithfulness or the contractual agreement of mariage de convenance, be punished with his emotional suffering through the strains placed upon said relationship. It is necessary that such punishments, through the aide of Senex and Grace, be public in practice, and that the continued awareness of such consequences be presented through means of art, as have reflected as such on late Earl's novels.
Thirdly, in Quebecois society, due to our sheer love of tragedies and how fate subscribes to said genre, many have criticised how Asher Lundrigan and Eileen de Ramaut did not break up for good after the so-called Smurfgate on the fourth episode. The issue, to those concerned, may have been that the inability for them to break apart for good, instead of helping them mend the relations, may have done both parties harm and contributed to the late Earl's death.
We assume that is not good. It is not good to desire a permanent coda in mere hopes of the Quebecois replication of Pascal Quignard's Terrasse à Rome, because the hopes of a rehabilitation by his nightingale is what has saved the late Earl from suicide in his twenties, and because it comes eerily close to killing the hopes of many dying children out there. The Visions of Gideon, which he always held in hopes, even under the presence of a charming woman who eventually became Her Majesty Christine the Second of Quebec, were what kept his hopes and ambitions going, and such sentiments were taken the other way for the Countess and his beloved ones when their reconciliation occurred back in Seasons 1 and 2. From the moment he was transported back to her Montreal flat, that was a prerogative that the late Earl knew he couldn't ignore and while he has come extremely close to cut their ties and commit himself to suicide, he has kept true to the accords as well. The conclusion that we can bring from here is that a loose reader's desires do not match what a true reader should be feeling at the very pit of his heart.
In the end, what this short epilogue attempts to state is simple. It is not right as a reader, with the moralistic works of late Earl Lundrigan in mind, to act as if we are immune from the undertones of punishment and atonement, and to just seek earthly pleasures that mean nothing. The heightened understanding of the suffering and the self-pilgrimage are perhaps the only ways one can truly earn the key measures. We must not substitute the arduous but necessary task for what's more tempting, and follow it to our daily lives.
Of course, such is easier said than done. But that too is expected. No one is immune from the experiences that make us human after all. But a time does come for us, to navigate the rocky waters with the help of a determined self and a compass. That is where a good reader will be able to distinguish himself from the society of bad readers.
Signed,
Heo Dong-Soo, Chair, Quebec and Shingoryeo Narrative Society | Jacques IX Professor of History and Comparative Literature, Universite St. Croix
Arsene-Pierre Pineau Kim, Member, Quebec and Shingoryeo Narrative Society | 47th Prime Minister of Quebec and Shingoryeo, 1st Baron Kim of Reneegrad
Emilie Gramsci-Hannigan, Member, Quebec and Shingoryeo Narrative Society | Chair, Royal Quebecois Society of Literature
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[Feb 21, 2039]
To: de Ramaut, Eileen
Coxwell Park, Saint-John-Upon-Battersea, Acadie
Hello, my beloved, the one and only,
Yesterday was another day of practice ahead of the qualifiers, but everything had turned out to be favourable, and we had an excellent journey to the local bathhouse at five. Tomorrow at 8 we head for OFSAAs, set as foundation to see if we will qualify and be invited for one, two or three nationals, come back by the end of the weekend. Once I come back from Beolgyo, I will send you a souvenir from the gigantic Trojan Horse they have for whatever the reason I do not know.
Funnily enough, today did feel somewhat different. On my way home, even as the snow covered the streets and the grey were all too familiar in Midtown Kingston suburbs, I couldn't help but to see the cheery smiles of my comrades, almost cherry and almost rosy, and the sweetness in the air. Did I feel your presence? Mayhaps.
I love you. AChL.
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St. Croix Bleu et Blanc - Scouting Profile
#20 - Asher C. Lundrigan
Position: Catcher | Hometown: Kingston, Frontenac | Class: Senior
2042 Season Stats: 32 GP, 110 AB, 10 HR, 26 RBI, .331 AVG
Average sized but talented young prospect, Asher Lundrigan is likely the best catcher prospect in the Quebecois Intercollegiate Sports level. Excellent catcher with excellent arm, solid framing ability and powerful bats, he holds great potential as a power hitter in the QBO level. Unlikely to be selected in the First Stage, where the territorial stage means that both Kingston Blue Jays and Kingston Tigers will select Samuel Carlini-Mwambutsya and Gregory Reynolds-Walusimbi over Lundrigan, but he is still a very likely Second Stage, first round selection.
by Quebec and Shingoryeo » Wed Apr 07, 2021 9:49 pm
As Asher Lundrigan entered the platform of Jarlsdómur station, he was feeling the bouts of vertigo. He was slowly losing his mental threads from the combination of pints, nightly wanderings and the mental disturbance that he had long tried to quash. The weeks he had spent with the Quebecois national hockey team, one where he had done every measure possible for the team and those who needed him to the point of excess, had started to wear on him.
After three nights ago, when he had left the very Matrix nightclub where he had sponsored the drugs and the damsels for the national team members, Asher was slowly simmering into a different self, as he began to the emptiness. The notion of happiness may be overrated, but is it really the product of our times or have I spent wandering without knowing what's near? He thought so, as he waited for the next Metro train to come late in the night.
Since that evening he had walked back on his two shoes, all that he could think about was the overwhelming desire of a family life. Whenever he was seeing happy families during the Team Quebec matches or on the street, of whatever shape or gender combinations, full of children or childless, Asher couldn't help but to feel the greatest sense of envy. Then, by the end of the night, as he would message his family or Eileen, Asher had started to see the brick pieces being added together for this home that's stable, welcoming and hopefully long-lasting enough to last a century.
I was once lost, but now I could see, Asher said to himself, as he sat on a chair and mindlessly zoomed into the stark, soulless walls of the platform. Asher hadn't really talked to Eileen about them settling into a family, mostly because he wasn't sure if they were ready. Okay, more like he wasn't sure if he was ready. It is always the hardest to take the final steps, before the two halves of a pair would complete their holy matrimony. Of course, these days, with the ways of modern life requiring 546,393 additional conditions (mostly financial, but devient lifestyle choices by some didn't help either) that made everybody apprehensive towards the custom, but at this point in time both had reached beyond that. But right now, while they were still waters apart and busy with their careers (his as a journalist, hers as a singer-songwriter), they too had evolved beyond arguing over such differences. So, while the doubt still remained, the only part that stood in their way was the final step, and that was to take the leap of faith.
Of course, given his mental capacity right now, that wasn't really on agenda. While warmly dressed with autumn jackets and a couple of layers of clothing, Asher was still shivering and sluggish, putting him even more into the state of dreariness. With a strong grip of his own, Asher resisted the internal temptation of drinking the can of beer he still had inside his bag, preferring to wait ten more minutes.
He could hear the buskers playing their tunes with a guitar or violon on the other side of the platform. On the background, it is slow and stirring, even as the music does not amuse him. While the city of Háttmark in a festive mood (why shouldn't they be?), it was still filled with hundreds of thousands of visitors altogether looking to have a blast, and the heat of the night wasn't enough to warm the cold floors of the metro station.
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Her Majesty Christine the Second's Speech to Quebec and Shingoryeo, Quebecois Commonwealth, Anaia and Atlantian Oceania
On my twenty-eighth birthday, I welcome the opportunity to speak to all the peoples of Quebec and Shingoryeo, the Quebecois Commonwealth and Anaia, no matter where they are from, where they live, and no matter where their lives will lead.
Let me begin by saying 'thank you' to all those out there, who have wished blessings and messages of goodwill. This is a special day for me, but it is also one day that reminds me of priorities, the priorities of this life that, like all of us watching this, whether home or away, face as one.
At such a time, it is a true delight to know that no matter what, there stands true friends around the Multiverse who wish me well and that of our beloved ones. As always, I am thankful. As I speak to you today from my home in Quebec City, I stand on the lands where my ancestors have arrived from the far lands of the Morning Calm. But I am never forgetful of those who have come from away, whose heart has brought life to this country and our soil. Anywhere I have travelled, in every corner of Atlantian Oceania, homely quarters of Anaia, or true homelands of our Quebecois Commonwealth of Nations, my parents, my brothers and I have taken to the core of what holds the strengths of the peoples together and reminded that the faith holds us stronger and together.
This is the great pride and privilege that belongs to us, the people of the Quebecois Commonwealth of Nations, in that we trust each other and not question ourselves out of dubitation and blindness. As I grow older, I hope I will continue to take the trails less taken, but rings truer to our hearts.
Today, as misunderstandings cloud the judgments and anger blinds the eyes of all of us in the days following the Foxchester Declaration, I am thinking especially of all the true souls of those who had grown up in the era of international coexistence and co-operative prosperity following the two wars against Nazi Felix and Holy Republican Empire of my father's time.
Will you, the people of Quebec and Shingoryeo, the Quebecois Commonwealth of Nations, and the prosperous regions of Anaia and Atlantian Oceania, let me speak on my birthday as your witness? As we face great challenges that need more understanding and tolerance from each pother, it would be an absolute joy for all of us to think that together, we shall overcome our historical challenges, current differences and the future challenges that lie ahead.
No matter what, we must not feel limited by the challenges that the 'shift' has brought to our lives, over the three seas that surround ourselves, the Quebecois Commonwealth and the corners of the world. We know that the opportunity, so rare yet often taken for granted, has come to us to strengthen our ties and redefine our priorities.
I am sure that you will see our faith and trust, in which we guide ourselves instead of blind hatred and unnecessary vigilance, as the great promise that binds all of us, from seas to seas, between you and me. Most of us have read, from the tales of our nation's initial dates, that our nation was built on its principles of unity and trust between argonauts and first peoples, and would continue to do so in service and servitude among our peoples. The same goes to our time with those of the Commonwealth and Anaia, for we ought to say that what appears to be a nuclear threat in the eyes of many, is no less than a reminder for our continued call for solidarity, and has to continue bridging the communities, a mari usque ad mare, et a flumine usque ad terminos terrae.
I think that binding ties of our Commonwealth of nations is even stronger than any that were hoped in the days of the Year 1404, and it is for us, who have lived under the time of prosperity, to continue carrying the torch of our enduring spirit and the light it brings to the dark world.
If we all wave our hands together with the trust in one another with a tolerant self, an understanding heart, and the compassionate spirit, all of which we hold as part of this ancient Commonwealth, we will cross the water together with no time.
To accomplish what we have been working together, we must stay true to ourselves. What our ancestors had spent endless sleepless nights for, in bridging the painted corners of our world together through patience and appreciation, is what I cannot do quite as they did. But through the power of technology, I can do what mankind has dreamed for millennia. I can make my declaration with the whole Commonwealth, and the regions listening. I would like to make the declaration now as a renewal to my promise to you all.
I declare before you all that my life, from now until the end of our time, shall be devoted to your service and the worlds that we all belong to. However far or close, Anaian or Oceanian, it is your service that I will promise on behalf of us all.
But I shall not have the strength to renew and bind this resolution alone, unless you join with me tonight. I know that your support, whether in the times of dark or not, will be given. May God help me to complete this vow, and May they hold ourselves true to the strongest of our faiths.
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