book!

Sep. 22nd, 2006 06:31 pm
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(which I was still reading at 1 am last night, but that was kind of for different reasons...)

From The Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold:

If Ista spoke to very many of her duller company with the cryptic leaps of thought she'd sprung on him, it was little wonder rumors circulated of madness, and yet... her occasional opacity of discourse felt more like cipher than babble to him. Of an elusive internal consistency, if only one held the key to it.

---

"Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice-- if not whether, then how, they may endure."

--

[at the end of a conversation on why love poems addressed to a lady's nose don't go over so well] "Hah. Anyway, I desire all of her. Nose and lips and feet and all the parts between, and her soul, without which her mere body would be all still and cold and claylike, and start to rot, and be not an object of destire at all."

[...which last I include mainly because (except for the pronouns) it sounds exactly like something I would say... which might be why a lot of people seem to think I'm crazy when I talk to them...]

Date: 2006-09-23 03:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gcbiggles.livejournal.com
I *love* Lois McMaster Bujold. Especially the books in the Chalion series. OK, and especially the Vorkosigan ones too. In fact, everything by her except The Hallowed Hunt for some reason. Have you read the whole Chalion series yet?

Date: 2006-09-23 12:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thanate.livejournal.com
I have. And her new book (set in yet another new world) is coming out october 1.

Date: 2006-09-23 07:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skittblink.livejournal.com
Souls rot?

Date: 2006-09-23 12:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thanate.livejournal.com
No, silly, bodies rot without souls in them. You know, if you die...

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