"'Must Ys burn for want of knowledge?'"
-Poul and Karen Anderson, Dahut, Chapter XV, section 1, p. 322.
However, she adds:
"'Lir would only drown us.'" (ibid.)
He will.
I think that we have all heard of demonic laughter? When Dahut fails yet again to seduce Budic and he has left, she is at first annoyed but then:
"Suddenly she began to laugh. Long and loud she laughed, hands on hips, head turned to the ceiling..." (p. 323)
I had read something like that before. CS Lewis' villains, Frost and Wither, literally communicate with demons. After talking to each other for a while, they suddenly become:
"...locked in an embrace from which each seemed to be struggling to escape. And as they swayed and scrabbled with hand and nail, there arose, shrill and faint at first, a cackling noise that seemed in the end rather an animal than a senile parody of laughter."
-CS Lewis, That Hideous Strength (London, 1955), p. 147.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I looked up this bit where Dahut laughed after again failing to seduce Budic. But, first, she was angry and even exclaimed, "Belisama, where were You?" I do see your point about Dahut's laughter being demonic, but I could say it was more likely Dahut was enjoying herself, working to bend Budic to her will.
Sean
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