What is your favorite quote of any work of Wolfe?

Phoebe Davis · 07 Apr 2003, 21:29 · from urth-v0304.mbox · original

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From: Phoebe Davis <meezer_gal at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) What is your favorite quote of any work of Wolfe?
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:29:41 -0700 (PDT)
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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 cotteg=
e.  I was with
her, running beside the Acis when we were a child.  I knew the ancient vill=
a moated by a
dark lake, the view through the dusty windows of the belvedere, and the sec=
ret 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 learn=
ed what it was
for one who had never seen a cell or felt a whip to be a prisoner of the to=
rturers, 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 wor=
e the rags of
an apprentice, nor the fuligin of a journeyman.  We were one, naked and hap=
py and clean,
and we knew that she was no more and that I still lived, and we struggled a=
gainst 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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