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Mary Renault Book Discussion
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: injest on January 03, 2007, 07:18:37 pm ---I think we are getting far from the original intent of this thread...which is to discuss the books. I understand and accept you are not a fan of Ms. Renault. So I will no longer engage you on this point....
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Where did you get this idea? ??? ???
I loved her 'Fire from Heaven' and "Nature of Alexander', just not 'The Persian Boy'.
Kerry:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 03, 2007, 07:57:23 pm ---I went two places to find it yesterday. There were lots of Renault books but not that one. I'll try again tonite, but if I can't find it, then I will order it on Amazon.
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Do you have a gay book shop where you live? I live in Sydney's gay ghetto and there's an excellent gay book shop here. It has the most wonderful selection of novels, biographies, auto-biographies, diaries, stationery, calendars, etc. It's a wonderful place to visit and browse through. If you have something similar where you live, they're sure to have it.
Kerry
Front-Ranger:
Surely there is one...I will check. Thanks for the suggestion!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on January 03, 2007, 08:27:31 pm ---I loved her 'Fire from Heaven' and "Nature of Alexander', just not 'The Persian Boy'.
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The Persian Boy wasn't one of my favorites either. Why I recommended The Last of the Wine. :-\
injest:
"Listen, and do not forget, and I will show you a mystery. It is not the sacrifice, whether it comes in youth or age, or the god remits it; it is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting, Theseus. The readiness is all. It washes heart and mind from things of no account, and leaves them open to the god. But one washing does not last a lifetime: we must renew it, or the dust returns to cover us. And so with this. Twenty years I have ruled in Troizen, and four times sent the King Horse to Posiedon. When I lay my hand on his head to make him nod, it is not only to bless the people with the omen. I greet him as my brother before the god, and renew my moira."
"The King Must Die"
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