Ah, a real classic. :D I found the Kenneth Branagh movie a very good, and relatively "true" filmic version of it. --A I will have to check it out sometime! I have only seen two of KB's movies, the Shakespeare-based Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing , but liked both of them. (I will wait ...

Okay: Eremis witnessed a death occurring in his flat mirror.

Savor Dam is right. I met Menolly and SD at Elohimfest 2014 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I remember joking with Savor Dam and Menolly in danlo's and Lady Tamarantha's backyard there about the Lauren Bacall line to Humphrey Bogart in the 1944 movie To Have And Have Not : "If you need me, just whi...

Hile Troy's sunglasses

Late last month I finished my seventh read of Mordant's Need, and this time made sure to reread IrrationalSanity's Havelock's Triumph along with the main [canonical] story. I must say, it fits really well!

Finished Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth , which surprised me as a compelling read on the struggles of a farming family to succeed. There is sexism against female offspring, alas, but otherwise an enjoyable read, and I think an honest accounting of life in 20th Century China before the Communist revo...

I'm Murrin usually creates these beginning-of-year photo drop threads, but I haven't seen him around here in KW lately, so I'll initiate the one for this year. This is a selfie I took yesterday, January 5, 2024, in Tucson, Arizona. I have also placed it in The Motley Crew photo album within the Gall...

Great question, Savor Dam! Hmmm...is it so Angus can send messages back to Warden using the Gap courier drones?

"Margonal is crafty," commented King Joyse with deceptive nonchalance, "and apparently he has grown in courage. Well, now you are here, my lord Prince. What have you learned?" Prince Kragen allowed himself a noncommittal shrug. "I have learned that we are indeed trapped. Al...

"My lord King." The Tor tried to reach his feet against the physician's restraining hands. His voice sounded as thin as a light breeze in cornshucks. "I must speak." At once, King Joyse turned toward the Tor; but he kept his back to the tent wall, away from Prince Kragen. "...

The tentflaps were swept aside, and King Joyse strode in. He startled Terisa so badly that she nearly stumbled to her knees. He was filthy. Clots of mud clung to his battle gear--his breastplate and mail leggings, the protective iron pallettes on his shoulders, the brassards strapped to his arms. H...

The Tor had been bleeding inside for days, killing himself with the effort to fill his King's place. He made a dismissive gesture; he may have wanted Terisa and Geraden to go away. Nevertheless they stayed where they were. After a moment, Geraden asked the physician, "How is he?" "As...

That "small cloud" or "puff of smoke" is the return of Havelock's friendly creature of Imagery, though the Tor and his immediate companions (Terisa, Geraden, Ribuld, and the Tor's physician) are unaware of its entrance to their Esmerel valley camp. They are under a tent that can ...

Opprobrium

Now reading The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck.

Mandibles

Thank you, IrrationalSanity!

Next question:

What did Eremis see in his flat mirror that made him grip the edges of its frame and say, "Excrement of a pig! That is impossible. You doddering old fool, that is impossible"?

Welcome to the Watch, Helen Blood! I loved reading that you have tuned into so much Donaldson in recent years! I enjoy most all of his work (especially Mordant's Need and the Gap), and like you finished up The Great God's War 's last book The Killing God earlier this year. I considered it satisfying...

Cool!
I think Geraden stated that he would never tell Quiss about what it was like seeing the ghouls feed and die--now matter how long he lives and how many opportunities he might have to tell her about it!