Time Patrol agent, Janne Floris, posing as the goddess, Niaerdh, quotes Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 to the sibyl, Veleda, and tells her that:
"'It is olden wisdom...'" (p. 613)
- the punch-line being:
"'...a time of war, and a time of peace.'" (ibid.)
- because Veleda, having promoted war and prophesied victory, must now preach peace.
Yet another Biblical quotation.
Similarly, in The Shield Of Time, Wanda Tamberly, staging a ghostly apparition, uses lines from the Ghost in Hamlet.
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