Reading for Eirian
Mar. 21st, 2004 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFantasy fiction often comes up with some very good snippets. Eirian wanted to re-read Katharin Kerr's Deverry series of books... so I picked up the first one today and read a little to her. She wanted me to post a couple of comments that seem to her to be appropriate... She says to tell you that Dweomer is used to encompass "magic, fate and belief in power beyond" all in one... These are chapter or section heading from the book Daggerspell, and no copyright breach is intended in displaying them here for others to think on.
"The young fool tells his master that he will suffer to gain the dweomer. Why is he a food? Because the dweomer has already made him pay and pay and pay again before he even stood on its doorstep..."
and
"If you write in the sand with a stick, soon the waves and wind will wash away the words. So are the mistakes of ordinary men. If you cut words into stone, they remain forever. A man who claims the dweomer becomes a chisel. All his misdeeds are graved into the very flank of time itself..."
"The young fool tells his master that he will suffer to gain the dweomer. Why is he a food? Because the dweomer has already made him pay and pay and pay again before he even stood on its doorstep..."
and
"If you write in the sand with a stick, soon the waves and wind will wash away the words. So are the mistakes of ordinary men. If you cut words into stone, they remain forever. A man who claims the dweomer becomes a chisel. All his misdeeds are graved into the very flank of time itself..."
