The Land of Nowhere

Yeah, it was striking to me that the one thing we hear Seb say about the Doors is "Pity their singer's dead." I think Fire and Hemlock has a complicated relationship to the doomed brilliance trope; I'm definitely in this read noticing more the ways it is very present in the background, but like Tam Lin / Thomas the Rhymer, it is also a story that is very much not resigned to doomed brilliance, and it is relevant that it is set in the 70's when tragic early deaths of musicians were particularly prominent in the public consciousness.