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Grex > Books > #100: The Summer Mysterious Quote item | |
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remmers
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response 88 of 104:
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Aug 14 18:31 UTC 2001 |
Yoo hoo, anderyn. New quote please?
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anderyn
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response 89 of 104:
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Aug 15 16:09 UTC 2001 |
Ohkay. This is from a favorite book of mine.
Damerel rode slowly back to the Priory, for a considerable part of the way
with a slack rein, allowing the gray to walk. The frown did not lift from his
brow: rather it deepened: and it was not until Crusader, startled by the
sudden uprising of a pheasant, stopped dead, throwing up his head and
snorting that he was thrown out of his abstraction. He admonished Crusader,
but leaned forward to pat his neck as well, because he knew the fault was
his. "Old fool!" he said. "Like your master -- who is something worse than
a fool. *Would she could make of me a saint, or I of her a sinner--* Who the
devil wrote that? You don't know, and I've forgotten, and in any event it's
of no consequence. For the first part it's too late, old friend, too late!
And for the second -- it was precisely my intention, and a rare moment this
is to discover that if I could, I would not! *Come* up!"
Crusader broke into a trot, and was kept to it, until, rounding a bend in the
lane that brought the main gates of the Priory within view, Damerel saw a
solitary horseman, walking his horse, and ejaculated: "Damn the boy!"
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anderyn
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response 90 of 104:
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Aug 15 16:11 UTC 2001 |
Some cautions -- the odd punctuation is in the edition I'm using here at
work, and I don't recall it in the original. The */* are to indicate
quotations or italics.
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janc
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response 91 of 104:
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Aug 16 12:19 UTC 2001 |
Hmmm. I've read that. But can't quite recall where. Mercedes Lackey maybe?
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anderyn
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response 92 of 104:
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Aug 16 14:03 UTC 2001 |
No. Not Lackey. But an interesting guess!
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janc
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response 93 of 104:
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Aug 16 15:24 UTC 2001 |
You know, I think I haven't read that. The names and situation sounded
familar, but on second reading, the voice doesn't. Lackey was a long shot
based on people with funny names talking to horses.
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anderyn
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response 94 of 104:
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Aug 17 00:22 UTC 2001 |
This author is slightly earlier in the century than Lackey.
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rcurl
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response 95 of 104:
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Aug 17 03:08 UTC 2001 |
So, its is between zero and eight months ago when it was written?
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anderyn
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response 96 of 104:
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Aug 17 10:58 UTC 2001 |
Oh. Well, in THAT case...:-) LAST century... early.
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davel
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response 97 of 104:
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Aug 17 12:34 UTC 2001 |
I also feel that I've read it, but think I probably haven't. <sigh>
*My* wild (**WILD**) guess is Ellis Peters. I'm fairly sure that's wrong.
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anderyn
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response 98 of 104:
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Aug 17 16:57 UTC 2001 |
Definitely wrong, but you've got roughly the right era/nationality.
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otaking
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response 99 of 104:
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Aug 21 04:38 UTC 2001 |
Tanith Lee?
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response 100 of 104:
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Sep 15 03:18 UTC 2001 |
<clears throat>
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i
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response 101 of 104:
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Oct 27 00:58 UTC 2001 |
<clears throat LOUDLY;>
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remmers
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response 102 of 104:
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Oct 27 11:43 UTC 2001 |
(Since this is the summer mysterious quote item, and it is no
longer in Agora, the throat-clearing may be going unheard.)
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davel
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response 103 of 104:
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Oct 27 22:09 UTC 2001 |
Well, it's the most recent one in the Books conference, where I read it, too.
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remmers
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response 104 of 104:
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Oct 28 12:14 UTC 2001 |
Maybe somebody should start a new one.
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