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Aug. 27th, 2006 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
featherynscaleBelatedly 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."
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."
