A horse called Bess
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007 at 5:25 amI’m tidying up part of the unicorn story where he remembers he and his mother coming to the castle in a wagon drawn by a horse called Bess (who is a sort of wise aunt to him). Some time after writing this part I heard about the folk singer Vashti Bunyan, who travelled for a time in a horse-drawn wagon, and thought that his mother might be something like her.
This morning I Googled for horses called Bess, since I didn’t want to use the name if it was inadvertently going to be a reference to a well-known horse in, I don’t know, Tolstoy or something. What I found was that Bunyan’s wagon horse was called Bess.
I will write a little more, then I think I will wander in a daze for a bit.
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:53 am
Hah! I love those moments.
August 23rd, 2007 at 3:40 am
The muse, she breathes. And plays fun little tricks!
August 23rd, 2007 at 4:57 am
Coincidences sparkle like dewy spiderwebs in the morning, indeedy.
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:19 am
If a life of Warner Bros. Cartoons has taught me anything, a horse drawing .. something, is supposed to be named Betsy.
August 26th, 2007 at 9:11 am
now mention about the midless destruction of windmills
not because that might be giants
but because i said so
August 30th, 2007 at 8:02 am
Dave - weird, your comment ended up in the spam. I don’t know the Warner Bros Betsy
Colin - in that last line you sound just like my mother.
August 31st, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Well maybe i am your mother’s alter ego CAKE EATING BASS MAN. no powers just an alter ego