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sartorias

Friday Night Quotage

Nov 11, 2005 21:03

"For those of easy tongues...Remember, some live all their lives without discovering this truth: that the noblest and most terrible power we possess is the power we have, each of us, over the chance-met, the stranger, the passer-by outside your life and your kin. Speak . . . as you would write: as if your words were letters of lead, graven there ( Read more... )

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Comments 12

lake_effected November 12 2005, 05:17:13 UTC

yay, dorothy dunnett. that's a powerful quote, on lots of levels.

paulakate November 12 2005, 05:27:42 UTC

Queen's Play is my favorite Dunnett, hands down, and that's a grand quote.

What possessed you to post it here and now?

paulakate November 12 2005, 05:30:29 UTC

Except of course on the days when Ringed Castle is my favorite Dunnett.

sartorias November 12 2005, 14:30:57 UTC

Yeah...QP is actually my least favorite--though there are scenes and passages I enjoy, but it really seems a hotchpotch of themes and even characters she was rehearsing for the big story arc.

sartorias November 12 2005, 14:29:48 UTC

riemannia and I have been rereading the Dunnetts and talking about them elsewhere, but I dunno, I was thinking about it as I walked the dogs, then overheard some idiot neocon as usual lying about something he said (that he got caught saying) on the news as I passed thru downstairs, and thought I'd post it before going to bed.

egretplume November 12 2005, 09:22:47 UTC

Queen's Play is the one volume I can't find in the house, and I can't decide whether to replace it or get rid of the whole set. Will I ever read it again now? I used to love it so, but it's been years since I touched it.

sartorias November 12 2005, 14:33:15 UTC

I find I'm enjoying it more because I know so much more of the history than I did years ago. I also know when to skim.

maryosmanski November 12 2005, 18:57:46 UTC

It's been years since I read the Lymond Chronicles -- enough years that it was before the end of my first marriage (1987).

The most recent book of Dunnett's that I've read is King Hereafter, and I recommend it highly. I don't have my copy anymore; I passed it along to someone else in the local SCA group who wanted to read it.

movingfinger November 12 2005, 20:54:39 UTC

Hm. I tried Dunnett and just could not read her. The Niccolò stories: the language was anachronistic. There must be something there, so many people rave about them, but it's invisible to me.

sartorias November 13 2005, 01:12:31 UTC

Well, I've had my issues with them--but if one thinks of them as grand opera, maybe that helps the expectations.