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Thursday, June 29, 2006
Coinage in a Game of Castles and NationsThy table set with rarest wine,
Choice meats, sweet-ripened fuit
And candlelight when we dine
In Fionvarre.
On we two the high stars will shine
And the holy moon lend her light.
If not here you will be mine
In Fionvarre
Queen Ariane: When the day comes that a man and a woman of our society may wed because they choose each other freely, then talk to me of loyalty. But so long as women are coinage in a game of castles and nations, then I will admit no such duty and will dedicate my life to changing the way of things.
King Blaise: Why should it matter if you are quiet or not?
QA: Discretion is at the heart of all of this. I am not here to bring shame to anyone, least of all myself. There is no public duty I owe my lord or my people in which I have been found wanting. The duties I owe myself are different. What happens alone at night between two people who are adults about it need not impact upon the world in any way.
KB: Then why bother? Why bother to be together?
QA: We come together to glory in the gift of life that the goddess gave us... or the god, if you prefer. Sometimes the best things in our lives come to us of a night and are gone in the morning. Have you never found that?
- A Song For Arbonne (1992)
by Guy Gavriel Kay
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