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Belatedly taking the advice passed out (randomly to the world) by several folks on the friendslist, I've just finished Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold. It's not a great story about the fate of kingdoms and the rise of a dedicated intelligent young woman to political power, but it is an okay story about that. It's a quite good story, though, about devotion and the relationship of people to gods and so on.

In this passage, the protagonist is kneeling in prayer, on a prayer rug woven as a gift to the temple. The exact theology doesn't matter.

"His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or, maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same."

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Belatedly taking the advice passed out (randomly to the world) by several folks on the friendslist, I've just finished Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold. It's not a great story about the fate of kingdoms and the rise of a dedicated intelligent young woman to political power, but it is an okay story about that. It's a quite good story, though, about devotion and the relationship of people to gods and so on.

In this passage, the protagonist is kneeling in prayer, on a prayer rug woven as a gift to the temple. The exact theology doesn't matter.

"His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or, maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same."

Open letter to the Internet

Dear Internet People:

I understand that it sometimes comes to pass that you decide that you will no longer frequent the messageboards and forums where once you posted often. The gods know there are several I wander back and forth from, occasionally alarming my co-posters. And I understand that it is considered rude in some circles to simply leave without saying goodbye. But gods damn it, Internet People, if you must post long goodbyes to your forums, please do so in such a manner that your "I don't think I'm going to do Hamster style post here anymore" note is materially distinguishable from a suicide note.

Okay?

Thanks Ever So Much,
featherynscale, who has spent more of the last ten minutes wondering if a friend is dead than seems reasonable or wise.

Open letter to the Internet

Dear Internet People:

I understand that it sometimes comes to pass that you decide that you will no longer frequent the messageboards and forums where once you posted often. The gods know there are several I wander back and forth from, occasionally alarming my co-posters. And I understand that it is considered rude in some circles to simply leave without saying goodbye. But gods damn it, Internet People, if you must post long goodbyes to your forums, please do so in such a manner that your "I don't think I'm going to do Hamster style post here anymore" note is materially distinguishable from a suicide note.

Okay?

Thanks Ever So Much,
featherynscale, who has spent more of the last ten minutes wondering if a friend is dead than seems reasonable or wise.