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A living post of all the books I've found related (entirely to tangentially) to Lies of P and of my analyses I've written, made for quick reference.
A few people have asked for a reading list, and I promised to make one...but I'm a slow deep-thinker reader (especially with some denser books). As such, this will be updated with titles as I finish them. I'm listing the specific version and translations I read (e.g. Robin Kirkpatrick's translation) because I found them to be as thorough and close as possible to original texts.
I also wanted somewhere to list out my analyses so I don't have to dig through my own profile.
Disclaimer: I don't think the team read all of these in-depth (they've definitely read some as creatives tend to be read people), but rather, consider these books as a background for some ideas that can be extracted from the game. And reading is really important!
~*~*~*~Happy reading~*~*~*~
Books (and movies) and analyses below:
Reading List
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (translated by John Hopper and Anna Kraczyna, Penguin Classics)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Penguin Classics Clothbound)
The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri (translated by Robin Kirkpatrick)
Paradise Lost by John Milton (Modern Library version)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Gilded Pocket edition)
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Simon Magus, the Gnostic Magician by G.R.S. Mead
Pistis Sophia: A Gnostic Miscellany by Anonymous (translated by G.R.S. Mead; Forgotten Books)
Nag Hammadi Scriptures: Complete Modern Translation of the Nag Hammadi Library Including the Gnostic Gospels by Anonymous (Eterna Verba Publishing)
Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings by Rene Descartes (translated by Desmond M. Clarke, Penguin Classics)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Tales of Hoffman by E. T. A. Hoffmann (selected and translated by R. J. Hollingdale, Stella & Vernon Humphries, and Sally Hayward, Penguin Classics):
The Sandman
Councillor Krespel/The Cremona Violin
The Mines at Falun
Greatest Hits by Harlan Ellison (published by Union Square & Co.)
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (published by Scribner)
Masters of Art: Dalí by Alexander Adams (published by Prestel)
Tangential Reading
La Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri* (translated by Barbara Reynolds) (*read in conjunction as a supplement to The Divine Comedy)
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe (Penguin Classics Clothbound)
Movies/Stage Performance
Robocop (1987)
The Fifth Element (1997) (if only to illustrate what quintessence is, also there's opera)
Coppélia (1870)
Note that this image is severely outdated currently
Green = Direct reference in-game, Yellow = Meta-reference, Red = Tangential
Analyses List
On Flowers and the Meaning in Lies of P
Lies of P and Paradise Lost (Part 1 probably)
Lies of P, Frankenstein, and How Paradise Lost Ties into Them
Catholicism in Lies of P (with a little bit of Gnosticism)
Lies of P, Phantom of the Opera, and Beauty and the Beast
A little blurb on The Little Prince in Lies of P
Lies of P and How Moonlight Town Lays Out The Divine Comedy
A Little Tangent About the Masque of the Red Death, Petrification Disease, and Lies of P
Simon's Obsession with Sophia in Lies of P
Alexander Goodman, Doubt, and the Implications of Gemini in Lies of P
A Little Blurb on The Alchemist and Lies of P
The Sandman, Coppélia, and the Romantic Human-Puppet Relationships in Lies of P
A Little Blurb on Councillor Krespel and Antonia Cersani
A Little Blurb about the Spider Cave Mystery and the Mines at Falun
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Speaking of Pinocchio and the Blue Fairy... I discovered another French article discussing the evolution of the character of the Blue Fairy - written by Perle Abbrugiati in 2021 for a collection "Women of power, powers of women". An article which focuses on... The Blue Fairy's role and relationship to life and death. I want to point tha this was before Guillermo del Toro released his own Pinocchio where "life and death" play a BIG role.
The article, titled "The Blue Fairy, or the power to give life and death", studies seven "incarnations" of the Fairy and - given we talked previously about which exact color the "blue" of the fairy is - each fairy is playfully identified with a different nuance of the color... The "turquoise fairy" of Collodi's novel, the sky-blue/opaline fairy of Walt Disney's movie, the violet fairy of Comencini's RAI production, the night-blue fairy of Benigni's "daring but unsuccesful" staging, the azure fairy of Enzo Alo's cartoon, the "steel-blue cyborg" of Spielberg's futuristic rewrite, and finally the "frost-blue" fairy of Garrone's (then recent) movie.
I do not have time to translate the article, but you can read it fully in French here.
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So this was a thing I sketched up yesterday morning on toned paper and slammed some colors down on with prisma pencils all while enjoying the lovely smell of sharpie marker as fan art dedicated to the dub cast and crew who worked on ToZX (very specifically, Chris Niosi (Dezel), Caitlin Glass (Rose) and Christian La Monte (Voice Director)). It was posted to my twitter feed with @’s for all three of them.
I’ve certainly got my issues with how ToZX has turned out storywise over the second season, but no lie, the dub crew has made those issues a little easier to weather. It’s heartening to know they care as much as they do, which was why I wanted to draw something up to dedicate to them, sleep deprived as I was by that point. Especially since they made sure the “keep on keeping on” line made it into the dub, whereas there was nothing really equivalent in the sub. (Many thanks to Chris Niosi in particular for caring so much about Dezel and the related scene to really want that line in there.)
If you haven’t seen the dub of episode 23 yet and you do have a Funimation account, I’d recommend checking it out. I teared up through the end of it, y’all. Seriously. It’s damn good.
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These are important things I have learned about writing fiction. I know these things, but sometimes I need a reminder. So I am writing them here, both as a reminder for myself, and as a reminder for all those who, like me, sometimes forget.
Characters must make choices.
Characters should often make bad choices before they make good choices.
Character choices should drive the vast majority of the plot. Characters reacting to having random stuff thrown at them is far less interesting than characters reacting to the stuff they've thrown after it's ricocheted around and comes bouncing back toward them.
If a character refuses to make a choice, there better be consequences for that too, and you better have a damn clear way of showing those consequences to the reader and the character.
Nearly every time I'm struggling with writing something, taking a step back and thinking about these 4 things usually helps get me unstuck.
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