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[THEMES] April 2009 - A Month of Chalion
This month's tags are taken from The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold. I recommend the book, and hope that the prompts will please people. My thanks to the moderators for giving me this opportunity.
Themes:
1) we would all be fools to pray for justice
2) great charity, bad tactics
3) a place beyond fear
4) prayer is a dangerous business
5) trying to build a tower out of custard
6) I will not fail death
7) all things out of season
8) lit like a burning city
9) now explain why you glow in the dark
10) expect to be valued accordingly
11) such a natural, normal lethality
12) choose good actions without good knowledge
13) the confusion of mind you dub honor
14) you were born to be betrayed
15) how long have I been walking down this road?
16) any man can be kind when he is comfortable
17) I've seen him cheat himself
18) these prizes are for living men
19) in desperation, anything becomes possible
20) I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was
21) ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be
22) with the right to rule came the duty to protect
23) they will be vastly unlucky in their children
24) but he quit just an hour too soon
25) matter remembered itself so very clearly
26) the structure of her nose alone
27) all the words in all the languages of the world that ever were or will be
28) like trying to weave a box of shadows in which to carry water
29) time and scale, both altered out of reckoning
30) even your darkness shall be treasured then
Source Quotations:
1) Mercy, High Ones. Not justice, please, not justice. We would all be fools to pray for justice.
2) "And right or wrong, what I also saw was that you made an enemy, and left him alive behind you. Great charity. Bad tactics."
3) "I found there is a place beyond fear. When the body and the mind just can't sustain it any more. The world, time . . . reorder themselves."
4) "The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers, you know. Prayer is a dangerous business. I think it should be outlawed."
5) Cazaril rubbed his nose, and said warningly, "Forcing Orico to stand would be like trying to build a tower out of custard. I don't recommend it."
6) I will not fail. I've failed practically everything else in my life. I will not fail death.
7) "Lord Bastard, god of justice when justice fails, of balance, of all things out of season, of my need."
8) "You are lit like a burning city."
9) "Good. Wonderful. Great works. Foundling hospitals and, um, inquiries. Now explain why you glow in the dark."
10) "The gods do not grant miracles for our purposes, but for theirs. If you are become their tool, it is for a greater reason, an urgent reason. But you are the tool. You are not the work. Expect to be valued accordingly."
11) Cazaril thought longingly of what a relief it would be to learn that his recurring belly cramp was such a natural, normal lethality. Alas, he was quite certain that most people's tumors didn't scream obscenities at them in the middle of the night.
12) "How can the royesse choose good actions without good knowledge?"
13) "The confusion of mind you dub honor is a disease, for which the Roknari galley-masters have the cure."
14) "My poor Teidez. You were born to be betrayed, I think."
15) How long have I been walking down this road?
16) "Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at his ease before his own hearth."
17) "I'd been raised by my father, who is a prudent, cautious man, always looking for men's hidden, selfish motivations. No one can cheat him. But I've seen him cheat himself. If you understand what I mean."
18) "I should probably explain, I bear a tumor in my gut, that I expect to kill me shortly. These prizes are for living men, I think. Not dying ones."
19) "In desperation, anything becomes possible."
"That's true. Or at least, people stop arguing with you about what's possible and what's not."
20) "I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was."
21) Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be, Iselle had cried.
22) With the right to rule came the duty to protect -- the privilege of receiving protection had to be left behind with childhood's other toys. Even protection from bitter knowledge. Especially from knowledge.
23) They will be vastly unlucky in their children. He knew it, suddenly, with a cold clarity. The whole of their scheme for peace and order rode upon the hope of a strong, bright heir to follow them both. They would pour themselves until empty into children miscarried, dead, mad, exiled, betrayed . . .
24) He could run away . . . but then he'd never know how it might have worked out. That Cazaril. If only he'd hung on another day, another mile, he might have saved the world. But he quit just an hour too soon . . .
25) Matter invented so many forms, and then went on to generate beauty beyond itself, minds and souls rising up out of it like melody from an instrument . . . matter was an amazement to the gods. Matter remembered itself so very clearly. He could not think why he had failed to notice it before.
26) If the pebble was amazing, Betriz's face was astounding. The structure of her nose alone could have held him entranced for hours. He abandoned the pebble at once for this better entertainment.
27) "If I had all the words in all the languages in the world that ever were or will be, and spoke until the end of time, it still couldn't . . ."
28) "Talking about it is like trying to weave a box of shadows in which to
carry water."
29) "I had a little trouble tracking time, the first few days after . . . after I saw the Lady. Time, and scale, both altered out of reckoning."
30) "Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy."
(Rumours that I was considering a set of Paladin of Souls lolcats are not to be countenanced. me is Ista and me will BITE YOUR FACE OFF om nom nom.)
Themes:
1) we would all be fools to pray for justice
2) great charity, bad tactics
3) a place beyond fear
4) prayer is a dangerous business
5) trying to build a tower out of custard
6) I will not fail death
7) all things out of season
8) lit like a burning city
9) now explain why you glow in the dark
10) expect to be valued accordingly
11) such a natural, normal lethality
12) choose good actions without good knowledge
13) the confusion of mind you dub honor
14) you were born to be betrayed
15) how long have I been walking down this road?
16) any man can be kind when he is comfortable
17) I've seen him cheat himself
18) these prizes are for living men
19) in desperation, anything becomes possible
20) I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was
21) ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be
22) with the right to rule came the duty to protect
23) they will be vastly unlucky in their children
24) but he quit just an hour too soon
25) matter remembered itself so very clearly
26) the structure of her nose alone
27) all the words in all the languages of the world that ever were or will be
28) like trying to weave a box of shadows in which to carry water
29) time and scale, both altered out of reckoning
30) even your darkness shall be treasured then
Source Quotations:
1) Mercy, High Ones. Not justice, please, not justice. We would all be fools to pray for justice.
2) "And right or wrong, what I also saw was that you made an enemy, and left him alive behind you. Great charity. Bad tactics."
3) "I found there is a place beyond fear. When the body and the mind just can't sustain it any more. The world, time . . . reorder themselves."
4) "The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers, you know. Prayer is a dangerous business. I think it should be outlawed."
5) Cazaril rubbed his nose, and said warningly, "Forcing Orico to stand would be like trying to build a tower out of custard. I don't recommend it."
6) I will not fail. I've failed practically everything else in my life. I will not fail death.
7) "Lord Bastard, god of justice when justice fails, of balance, of all things out of season, of my need."
8) "You are lit like a burning city."
9) "Good. Wonderful. Great works. Foundling hospitals and, um, inquiries. Now explain why you glow in the dark."
10) "The gods do not grant miracles for our purposes, but for theirs. If you are become their tool, it is for a greater reason, an urgent reason. But you are the tool. You are not the work. Expect to be valued accordingly."
11) Cazaril thought longingly of what a relief it would be to learn that his recurring belly cramp was such a natural, normal lethality. Alas, he was quite certain that most people's tumors didn't scream obscenities at them in the middle of the night.
12) "How can the royesse choose good actions without good knowledge?"
13) "The confusion of mind you dub honor is a disease, for which the Roknari galley-masters have the cure."
14) "My poor Teidez. You were born to be betrayed, I think."
15) How long have I been walking down this road?
16) "Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at his ease before his own hearth."
17) "I'd been raised by my father, who is a prudent, cautious man, always looking for men's hidden, selfish motivations. No one can cheat him. But I've seen him cheat himself. If you understand what I mean."
18) "I should probably explain, I bear a tumor in my gut, that I expect to kill me shortly. These prizes are for living men, I think. Not dying ones."
19) "In desperation, anything becomes possible."
"That's true. Or at least, people stop arguing with you about what's possible and what's not."
20) "I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was."
21) Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be, Iselle had cried.
22) With the right to rule came the duty to protect -- the privilege of receiving protection had to be left behind with childhood's other toys. Even protection from bitter knowledge. Especially from knowledge.
23) They will be vastly unlucky in their children. He knew it, suddenly, with a cold clarity. The whole of their scheme for peace and order rode upon the hope of a strong, bright heir to follow them both. They would pour themselves until empty into children miscarried, dead, mad, exiled, betrayed . . .
24) He could run away . . . but then he'd never know how it might have worked out. That Cazaril. If only he'd hung on another day, another mile, he might have saved the world. But he quit just an hour too soon . . .
25) Matter invented so many forms, and then went on to generate beauty beyond itself, minds and souls rising up out of it like melody from an instrument . . . matter was an amazement to the gods. Matter remembered itself so very clearly. He could not think why he had failed to notice it before.
26) If the pebble was amazing, Betriz's face was astounding. The structure of her nose alone could have held him entranced for hours. He abandoned the pebble at once for this better entertainment.
27) "If I had all the words in all the languages in the world that ever were or will be, and spoke until the end of time, it still couldn't . . ."
28) "Talking about it is like trying to weave a box of shadows in which to
carry water."
29) "I had a little trouble tracking time, the first few days after . . . after I saw the Lady. Time, and scale, both altered out of reckoning."
30) "Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy."
(Rumours that I was considering a set of Paladin of Souls lolcats are not to be countenanced. me is Ista and me will BITE YOUR FACE OFF om nom nom.)