R.I.P. Anne McCaffrey
"Harper, your song has a sorrowful sound,
Though the tune was written gay.
Your voice is sad and your hands are slow
And your eye meeting mine turns away." ~ Dragonsong, Chapter 4
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From hereMcCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Mass., and moved to Ireland in 1970. In the late 1960s she became the first woman to win a Hugo Award for a work of ( Read more... )
Though the tune was written gay.
Your voice is sad and your hands are slow
And your eye meeting mine turns away." ~ Dragonsong, Chapter 4
~~~
From hereMcCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Mass., and moved to Ireland in 1970. In the late 1960s she became the first woman to win a Hugo Award for a work of ( Read more... )
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I can't help but hope that wherever she's gone, there's a dragon waiting for her, and a Harper to sing her home.
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And so did you.
"My nightly craft is winged in white;
A dragon of night-dark sea.
Swiftborn, dreambound and rudderless;
Her captian and crew are me.
I sail a hundred sleeping tides
Where no seamen's ever been
And only my white-winged craft and I
Know the marvels we have seen." ~ Dragonsinger,Chapter 5
May she find that white-winged craft (or gold, bronze, brown, blue or green).
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