"'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.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteI 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