Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed this. And you have taught me something too, I never thought of Machen's story as comparison. Now I must re-read it!
From what I gather, the association with misfortune is precisely because of association with death and/or Faerie. If these aren't a worry(!) there's no other problem, lilac's meant to be good for, say, love and money! But wherever lilac grows, Otherworld is not far away...
I agree completely re Eggers as a visual story teller.
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Date: 2025-03-14 07:14 am (UTC)From what I gather, the association with misfortune is precisely because of association with death and/or Faerie. If these aren't a worry(!) there's no other problem, lilac's meant to be good for, say, love and money! But wherever lilac grows, Otherworld is not far away...
I agree completely re Eggers as a visual story teller.