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Date Posted: Tue, July 05 2022, 7:46:04
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Tuesday, July 5, 2022

The following quotation is from Written In my Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2014 All Rights Reserved. Chapter 66 War Paint


“Nessun Dorma.” None shall sleep. It was a song - and aria, Brianna had called it - from an opera she knew; She’d played a part in it at her university, dressed up in Chinese robes. Ian smiled at the thought of his cousin, taller than most men, striding up and down on a stage, swishing her silk robes about her; he wished he’d seen that.

He’d thought of her from the moment he’d opened the little deerskin bag that held his paints. She was a painter, Bree, and a good one. She ground her own pigments, and she’d made his red ochre for him, and the black andwhite from charcoal and dried clay - and made for him, too, a deep green from ground malachite, and a brilliant yellow from the gall of the buffalo she and her mother had killed; no other man had such deep colors to his paint, and he wished for a moment that Eats Turtles and some of his other Mohawk clan brothers could be with him to admire them.

The noise of the distant camp was like the singing of cicadas in the trees near a river: a buzz too loud to think through, but one that went away as you fot used to it. None shall sleep . . . The women and children, they might sleep - but the whores surely didn’t. Not tonight.

He felt a twitch at the thought, but dismissed it. Thought of Rachel, and dismissed her,too, but reluctantly.

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[> I love the relationship between Ian and Bree! -- DianaH, Tue, July 05 2022, 9:30:51


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[> [> Me too! And I think Bri expects that closeness with William but I don’t think he’ll be able to be as easy with her for a while. Ian grew up with Mom Jenny and basically stepmom Claire. A woman like Bri is fine with him. William’s ideas of women aren’t quite as sophisticated yet. -- Kathy in PA, Tue, July 05 2022, 13:03:50


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[> [> [> Lady Dunsany didn't seem to be a push-over, neither is Grandmother Benedicta. But you're right in that the time-traveling modern woman would be a bit much for him, even though he did have Claire as a step-mother for a few months. -- kgp, Wed, July 06 2022, 6:06:57


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[> [> [> [> Compared to Ian he was stiff with Claire though. Ian welcomed her with open arms and heart once he realized she wasn’t his Da’s “woman on the side.” The way Diana described young Ian in that scene made it hard for me to accept John Bell because he’s so round featured. Book Ian is very different. -- Kathy in PA, Wed, July 06 2022, 13:10:46


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