Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:29:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Phoebe Davis 
Subject: Re: (urth) What is your favorite quote of any work of Wolfe?

Desperately hard to pick a favorite - this is certainly in the running:

Just as I despaired -- she was there, filling me as a melody fills a cottege.  I was with
her, running beside the Acis when we were a child.  I knew the ancient villa moated by a
dark lake, the view through the dusty windows of the belvedere, and the secret space in
the odd angle between two rooms where we sat at noon to read by candlelight.  I knew the
life of the Autarch's court, where poison waited in a diamond cup.  I learned what it was
for one who had never seen a cell or felt a whip to be a prisoner of the torturers, what
dying meant, and death.

I learned that I had been more to her than I had ever guessed, and at last feel into a
sleep in which my dreams were all of her.  Not memories merely - memories I had possessed
in plenty before.  I held her poor, cold hands in mine, and I no longer wore the rags of
an apprentice, nor the fuligin of a journeyman.  We were one, naked and happy and clean,
and we knew that she was no more and that I still lived, and we struggled against neither
of these things, but with woven hair read from a single book and talked and sang of other
matters.

The Claw of the Conciliator

Phoebe


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