Kevin's Watch

...And gleaming like the grief of trees, they sang themselves away...

You will not fail, however he may assail you

Ah Creator! Did you intend that beauty and truth should pass utterly from the Land!

Come! This is the caamora! Come and be healed!

Speaking of the caamora:

"No ordinary fire can harm me. But the pain - the pain teaches many things."

Ah Foamfollower...

Stone and Sea are deep in life,
two unalterable symbols of the world:
permanence at rest, and permanence in motion;
participants in the Power that remains

"Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?"
Absently, he replied, "I was, once."
"And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a sea without salt. How do you live?"
Covenant folded his arms across the gunwales and rested his chin on them. As the boat moved, Andelain opened constantly in front of him like a bud; but he ignored it, concentrated instead on the plaint of water past the prow. Unconsciously, he clenched his fist over his ring. "I live."
"Another?" Foamfollower returned. "In two words, a story sadder than the first. Say no more -- with one word you will make me weep."

I love that exchange between Foamfollower and Covenant (thanks Furls!)

If any of the kids are into philosophy, I might touch on the idea that he's on the knife edge between saving and damning the earth. I always liked that notion

umm, how about this: "all you can do is hurt me, but pain doesn't last. It only makes me stronger." then relate the quote to the midterms

My favourite passage is, I think, Mhoram's description of the birth of the Ravers. Puts a chill up and down my spine.

Ah, jehannum returns! One of my favorite avs!!

Well thanks a lot for the input everyone. The speech went pretty well (the content was good but my deliveries always suck ), and I even got someone to go on their laptop after class and buy the first trilogy off ebay.

Congratulations

Glad the speech went well for you. These books are for a more mature audience, I think, than the dragon/fairy/elf-type books. SRD has spoiled me for anything else in this genre. I tried the Pern series and just couldn't get into it. I have tried to tell friends about these books. I get odd looks every time. Apparently, I would not have been much help here in these posts for your speech, Krilly. I'd like to know if you've heard from that young person who ordered the books right away after your speech.

One thing I've always wondered is the parsing of the phrase, "You will not fail, however he may assail you." This could mean two things:

1) "You will not fail, no matter how much he assails you"

or

2) "You will not fail, but know that he will assail you"

I'm guessing it's #1, but I'm not sure.

Nothing but #1 had ever crossed my mind. Now, if it had been: "You will not fail. However, he may assail you." But it was a sure thing that she would be assailed, so, if your #2 was intended, punctuation aside, I think it would likely have been, "...however he will assail you."

Furls Fire wrote:Ah Foamfollower...

"Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?"
Absently, he replied, "I was, once."
"And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a sea without salt. How do you live?"
Covenant folded his arms across the gunwales and rested his chin on them. As the boat moved, Andelain opened constantly in front of him like a bud; but he ignored it, concentrated instead on the plaint of water past the prow. Unconsciously, he clenched his fist over his ring. "I live."
"Another?" Foamfollower returned. "In two words, a story sadder than the first. Say no more -- with one word you will make me weep."

I joined up here just to say Furls got it right. These words bring a tear to my eye....

Quite the elegant introduction b-b!! Welcome to the Watch! Be welcome and true!

aliantha wrote:Good choices, Fist!

In the same vein as "Mention beer": mention that the Haruchai haven't had sex for 500 years. *That* oughta get a discussion going....

I think so too, but where is this 500 years coming from? The Bloodguard was MUCH older than that, and the haruchai themselves lived only normal lifespans as I recall.

I cannot recall now, but TC had a short conversation with Bannor about that, didn't he?

Indeed. Bannor was a Bloodguard for 2,000 years.

belfast-biker wrote:

Furls Fire wrote:Ah Foamfollower...

"Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?"
Absently, he replied, "I was, once."
"And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a sea without salt. How do you live?"
Covenant folded his arms across the gunwales and rested his chin on them. As the boat moved, Andelain opened constantly in front of him like a bud; but he ignored it, concentrated instead on the plaint of water past the prow. Unconsciously, he clenched his fist over his ring. "I live."
"Another?" Foamfollower returned. "In two words, a story sadder than the first. Say no more -- with one word you will make me weep."

I joined up here just to say Furls got it right. These words bring a tear to my eye....

When I got to that part in LFB the first time I said to myself..."this is going to be a great ride." It only got better from there.

Welcome to the Watch Belfast Biker, how is the homeland these days? It's been years since I been there.

Furls Fire wrote:Welcome to the Watch Belfast Biker, how is the homeland these days? It's been years since I been there.

You're from Northern Ireland? Small world! Where you from originally Furl?

Homeland's doing fine.... we may soon even have our politicians do some work soon for the money they've been earning over the last few months!

I was not born in Ireland, but my grandparents were. They both migrated here with their parents when they were children. My husband's family is also Irish, but his great grandparents migrated here as children.

The last time we visited Ireland was in 1998, almost 10 years ago.

Furls Fire wrote:

I was not born in Ireland, but my grandparents were. They both migrated here with their parents when they were children. My husband's family is also Irish, but his great grandparents migrated here as children.

The last time we visited Ireland was in 1998, almost 10 years ago.

We do get around.