"'Leonardo cast his goblet on the floor Glass flew outward, wine fountained red. 'Heloise and Abelard!' he roared. 'They will have had their night!'"
-Poul Anderson, "House Rule" IN Anderson, Fantasy (New York, 1981), pp. 9-20 AT p. 20.
Just before dying, the heroine of Anthony Horowitz's Forever And A Day tells James Bond that they did not have forever but they did have their day.
"'We've had our day,' I said.
"'Yes,' said Mansel, and smiled. 'But what a day, William!'"
-Dornford Yates, Ne'er-Do-Well (Kelly Bray, Cornwall, 2001), p. 5.
Good nights and days; not forever.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
But it was so unmmannerly of Leonardo to smash his goblet like that in "House Rule"! I would be embarassed to behave to do so.
Ad astra! Sean
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