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Sunshine after Rain by Elspeth Leigh (NC-17)
Fandom: THE PROFESSIONALS
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author Website: Unknown
Why this must be read:
That's a difficult question if, like me, you love the Old Man and don't much enjoy pain, or hurt without comfort. The first reason and the less convincing is that I have announced I intended to focus my recs on the character of Cowley; I already presented him in various predicaments, only discarding stories where he is shown as ridiculous or evil. So, I couldn't avoid to pick at least a text where he is taken from our affection.
So, this is another death story, and contrary to the previous one, not funny at all. The author doesn't play nice. All the cruelty and absurdity, even the sordid side of our mortal condition is confronted here, by the writer but, first, by his character, who has decided he won't let himself being passively engulfed in the wreckage of physical and mental decay. So, he dies as he has been living, like a warrior but in absolute loneliness. This kind of ending is only too likely for a man such as Cowley, more likely than the miracle of a belated love relationship, though I allow me to dream about possible miracles.
That's maybe the second and the main reason of my choice; it meets one of my deepest belief about our fate as human beings: Alone we were born, alone we will die, alone we have to live in between. And anything else is literature (something we are aware somehow: why all these stories about everlasting friendship and loyalty between mythic partners, if not to counteract in our mind the depressing effect left by the everyday's observations of continuous misunderstandings, abuses and deceptions between real lovers and friends?)
By the way, this consideration is perhaps why I so much like this character; he is for me the perfect personification of loneliness assumed with the highest degree of lucidity and dignity, "in the service of public interest".
There is a third reason: the writing. The author knows how to make her reader get a feeling of loss, of grief, of weariness, of helpless revolt before the tragic "irremediability" of certain events, without having to speak too loud.
If I have not dissuaded you to read the following text, well, that is you are a brave heart! Do it, however; it's worth the effort.
Sunshine after Rain
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author Website: Unknown
Why this must be read:
That's a difficult question if, like me, you love the Old Man and don't much enjoy pain, or hurt without comfort. The first reason and the less convincing is that I have announced I intended to focus my recs on the character of Cowley; I already presented him in various predicaments, only discarding stories where he is shown as ridiculous or evil. So, I couldn't avoid to pick at least a text where he is taken from our affection.
So, this is another death story, and contrary to the previous one, not funny at all. The author doesn't play nice. All the cruelty and absurdity, even the sordid side of our mortal condition is confronted here, by the writer but, first, by his character, who has decided he won't let himself being passively engulfed in the wreckage of physical and mental decay. So, he dies as he has been living, like a warrior but in absolute loneliness. This kind of ending is only too likely for a man such as Cowley, more likely than the miracle of a belated love relationship, though I allow me to dream about possible miracles.
That's maybe the second and the main reason of my choice; it meets one of my deepest belief about our fate as human beings: Alone we were born, alone we will die, alone we have to live in between. And anything else is literature (something we are aware somehow: why all these stories about everlasting friendship and loyalty between mythic partners, if not to counteract in our mind the depressing effect left by the everyday's observations of continuous misunderstandings, abuses and deceptions between real lovers and friends?)
By the way, this consideration is perhaps why I so much like this character; he is for me the perfect personification of loneliness assumed with the highest degree of lucidity and dignity, "in the service of public interest".
There is a third reason: the writing. The author knows how to make her reader get a feeling of loss, of grief, of weariness, of helpless revolt before the tragic "irremediability" of certain events, without having to speak too loud.
If I have not dissuaded you to read the following text, well, that is you are a brave heart! Do it, however; it's worth the effort.
Sunshine after Rain