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A clear glass window, at a sea dawn by lionpyh for Regan_V
Chalion Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
21 Dec 2011
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Second sight is redundant to reason anyway.
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He sat with the chill of the window on his face and shut his eyes and prayed, by rote, and by heart. You whose door has no lock, set your cuckoo’s eggs in our familiar hearts, so that we may not be too certain of limiting our love. Salt our wounds, that they may heal cleanly. God of surprise, god of presumption, tuck our tails into our mouths, so that when we go to bite our enemies, we receive as we mean to deliver.
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It is a perpetual irritation to divines of the Bastard that it is not possible to blaspheme against him. He has already thought of all the rude things one might instruct him to do. He would cheerfully do them. He minces one’s oaths before one has got to them. He reduces one to the depths of decency. “For goodness sakes,” said Umegat, aggrieved, to the goat still nibbling at his glove.
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Yuletide 2011