zk/writing/fanfic/southern-reach.md

%title Southern Reach fanfic
:writing:fanfic:fiction:short-story:

* Earlier expedition
* Botanist, psychologist, physicist, linguist
* Botanist
    * Irish
    * carries note from father (complicated relationship) with gaelic blessing "may the road rise up to meet you"
    * linguist talks about translation, offers original
    * starts focusing on last line "may god hold you in the palm of his hand"
        * CF Isaiah 49:16 - "See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands"
        * just an obsession with hands all around
        * A hand in your making, a bird in the hand, hands forced, hand in hand, blood on your hands, washing one's hands of the matter
    * First one to go
    * One night, outside the clearing where the tower is, meets clone
    * Clone guides her hand into the soil where it takes root, muscles loosened, unwound, thus unbound began to lengthen, strengthen, arch skyward, seeking stars.

'''
Go n-éirí an bóthar leat
Go raibh an ghaoth go brách ag do chúl
Go lonraí an ghrian go te ar d'aghaidh
Go dtite an bháisteach go mín ar do pháirceanna
Agus go mbuailimid le chéile arís,
Go gcoinní Dia i mbos A láimhe thú. 
'''

## Story