Is this a dream ?..if it is don't wake me...
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 4:31 am
Greetings,
My absolute first post here, and having just finished the 2nd Chronicles for the 40th + time on Friday night, I decided I'd finally check online for information on SRD's books, collectables and the like. Mind you, I haven't really checked out SRD's website, not kept up to date with current writers - other than R.A. Salvatorre.
So, I was searching on Amazon, typed in TCTC and the first listing has a book called "The Runes of The Earth". I briefly scan the page, and then see someone has written a small intro, read down through it yeah, yeah thats all familiar, and then...
The pulse quickened, the blood pressure was going toward 200, and I thought - no need to panic, probably just a typo. Checked Google out, and BAM..it happened..
Its as if someone called me back through time and I landed on Kevin's Watch once again. Looking down I see the whole breadth of The Land before me, and who is there to greet me but this mythical man, one who has called me to this place so many time before, and yet on every visit, my memory becomes clearer and my desire to stay beckons to my consiousness.
How the land has changed over the last 20 years but it still is fresh and new to me. To be called back to that wonderful place, where imagination becomes reality, where adventures become epic, and where this 40 year old feels like a little child, aye...that is what I dream of when I open the Chronicles. True story follows:
***
There was something funny in the air today, prior to my checking Amazon's website, my Cocker Spaniel hopped up on the bed, and knocked Lord Foul's Bane off, and onto the floor, it opened right to when Thomas arrives on the Watch. I picked it up, and briefly read those words...
"Kevin's Watch!, are you in need?".
***
So, today, I check SRB's website with as much haste as I've had in many years, and see the words that have haunted me like a shadow against the sun...ITS TRUE and to aid me on this journey, I find a forum, with members who have visited this place and adore it as I do !
Now, as a guy, we're supposed to be all macho, and hide our emotions behind a stone facade, but to heck with that, I cried with joy, and absolute pleasure because THE series that has brought me to the land so many times before, has once again beckoned to me, and this time it will present new tales to dazzle and entice.
I literally walked very quietly outside (we're way out in the country) so as not to wake my 85 year old grandfather, and let out a scream of absolute joy. then the tears came, as the magnitude hit me...
So, as a final thought, I just wanted to say thank you to Stephen R. Donaldson for sending forth the call to come back to The Land, and for bringing this world to life once again. I await your words with passion, and deep gratitude.
I'd also like to say hello to everyone here, and am glad to have a place to visit with people whom I hope to call friend.
Is this a dream ?..if it is don't wake me...
With kind regards,
R.S.
My absolute first post here, and having just finished the 2nd Chronicles for the 40th + time on Friday night, I decided I'd finally check online for information on SRD's books, collectables and the like. Mind you, I haven't really checked out SRD's website, not kept up to date with current writers - other than R.A. Salvatorre.
So, I was searching on Amazon, typed in TCTC and the first listing has a book called "The Runes of The Earth". I briefly scan the page, and then see someone has written a small intro, read down through it yeah, yeah thats all familiar, and then...
The pulse quickened, the blood pressure was going toward 200, and I thought - no need to panic, probably just a typo. Checked Google out, and BAM..it happened..
Its as if someone called me back through time and I landed on Kevin's Watch once again. Looking down I see the whole breadth of The Land before me, and who is there to greet me but this mythical man, one who has called me to this place so many time before, and yet on every visit, my memory becomes clearer and my desire to stay beckons to my consiousness.
How the land has changed over the last 20 years but it still is fresh and new to me. To be called back to that wonderful place, where imagination becomes reality, where adventures become epic, and where this 40 year old feels like a little child, aye...that is what I dream of when I open the Chronicles. True story follows:
***
There was something funny in the air today, prior to my checking Amazon's website, my Cocker Spaniel hopped up on the bed, and knocked Lord Foul's Bane off, and onto the floor, it opened right to when Thomas arrives on the Watch. I picked it up, and briefly read those words...
"Kevin's Watch!, are you in need?".
***
So, today, I check SRB's website with as much haste as I've had in many years, and see the words that have haunted me like a shadow against the sun...ITS TRUE and to aid me on this journey, I find a forum, with members who have visited this place and adore it as I do !
Now, as a guy, we're supposed to be all macho, and hide our emotions behind a stone facade, but to heck with that, I cried with joy, and absolute pleasure because THE series that has brought me to the land so many times before, has once again beckoned to me, and this time it will present new tales to dazzle and entice.
I literally walked very quietly outside (we're way out in the country) so as not to wake my 85 year old grandfather, and let out a scream of absolute joy. then the tears came, as the magnitude hit me...
So, as a final thought, I just wanted to say thank you to Stephen R. Donaldson for sending forth the call to come back to The Land, and for bringing this world to life once again. I await your words with passion, and deep gratitude.
I'd also like to say hello to everyone here, and am glad to have a place to visit with people whom I hope to call friend.
Is this a dream ?..if it is don't wake me...
With kind regards,
R.S.
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it to a Forrestal to come up with one...