Queen Morgan le Fay tries to win Holger for Chaos:
"'What is there about dull Law that drives you to defend it?...
"'...the mirth and thunder and blazing stars of Chaos would be yours...
"'You could hurl suns and shape worlds if you chose!'" (p. 68)
She sounds like Raor of the Exaltationists:
"'We would have made [the universe] what we chose, and unmade it and remade it, and stormed the stars as we warred for possession, with an entire reality the funeral pyre of each who fell and entire histories the funeral games, until the last god reigned alone.'"
-Poul Anderson, The Shield Of Time (New York, July 1991), PART TWO, 209 B. C., p. 118.
The former reminded me of the latter.
It is time to eat and drink something and to say good night until tomorrow.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteWhat Morgan Le Fay and Raor wanted strikes me as being nothing but nihilistic madness!
Ad astra! Sean
Nihilistic madness can be attractive... 8-).
ReplyDeleteKaor, Mr. Stirling!
ReplyDeleteI can see how that would be appealing to some! But it would be no fun to those destroyed by that madness--which is what either Manse or Holger thought.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: yup.
ReplyDeleteSean: some people, however, construe any limitation on their actions as an attack.
ReplyDeleteKaor, Mr. Stirling!
ReplyDeleteI agree, and I have scan sympathy for anarchs--just think of the chaos in Haiti!
Feudists like the McCoys and Hatfields should be put down. As well as ordinary criminals.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: yeah, they should. OTOH, blood-feuds are a 'natural' expression of human feelings. They operated for a lot longer than the State.
ReplyDeleteKaor, Mr. Stirling!
ReplyDeleteToo true, I agree. I too have had wrathful feelings.
Ad astra! Sean