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i've been complaining forever about not having a unifiying über-title for my work. something that would take the three distinct periods (antebellum america, the war of northern aggression, and the reconstruciton era) and encapsulate them (though technically the reconstruction era ends in 1877 and then the gilded age sorta took over ~ which sorta puts a crimp in my bustle, but we can work out the details later, i mean, technically only One Perfect Summer falls into the strictly antebellum era, so i could shift everything from bellum to reconstruction to gildedness and no one would be the wiser). boy, i sure can natter.

anyway, assuming we're working in the magical land of threes: try this one for size (now seemingly the most obviously appropriate title in the world):

An American Triptych

on top of which i love this almost completely unrelated painting:

from hunter studio (how apropos)

p.s. while i realize that this does not make allowances for Raziel's Dream, i'm okay with that book being a seperate critter (especially since it takes place almost entirely in france and not in america at all).