Wednesday, October 21, 2009
If we can re-direct that enmity. Wouldn't it be nicer to hate Murgos rather than each other?' 'Far nicer my Lady. I've met a few Murgos and I've never encountered one that I.
Edmund's riddle: ". . . Wuffa Wehha's offspring. . . " "What's your long name Padda?" he asked. "Paldriht master. Haven't been called that since my mother died. " "What would Wuffa be short for?" "Don't know.. cheap diflucan Sees only the face of things. But I know. Has it ever entered your mind to wonder why she took the veil buried herself in that dolorous convent of the living dead?" "Because she loved him so and when he died . . . " Speech was frozen on my lips by Carquinez's sneer. "A pat answer " he said "machine-made like a piece of cotton-drill. The world's judgment! And much the world knows about it. Like you she fled from life. She was beaten. She flung out the white flag of fatigue. And no beleaguered city ever flew that flag in such bitterness and tears. "Now I shall tell you the whole tale and you must believe me for I know. They had pondered the problem of satiety. They loved Love. They knew to the uttermost farthing the value of Love. They loved him so well that they were fain to keep him always warm and a-thrill in their hearts. They welcomed his coming; they feared to have him depart. "Love was desire they held a delicious pain. He was ever seeking easement and when he found that for which he sought he died. Love denied was Love alive; Love granted was Love deceased. Do you follow me? They saw it was not the way of life to be hungry for what it has. To eat and still be hungry--man has never accomplished that feat. The problem of satiety. That is it. To have and to keep the sharp famine-edge of appetite at the groaning board. This was their problem for they loved Love. Often did they discuss it with all Love's sweet ardours brimming in their eyes; his ruddy blood spraying their cheeks; his voice playing in and out with their voices now hiding as a tremolo in their throats and again shading a tone with that ineffable tenderness which he alone can utter. "How do I know all this? I saw--much. More I learned from her diary. This I found in it from Fiona Macleod: 'For truly that wandering voice that twilight-whisper that breath so dewy-sweet that flame-winged lute- player whom none sees but for a moment in a rainbow-shimmer of joy or a sudden lightning-flare of passion this exquisite mystery we call.
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