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"“So eager still! Do you never tire?” “Oh, yes, my Lord,” said Gerbert. “But when I’ve struggled long and hard, and then at last I understand, I forget everything but that.”"
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Judith TarrI am asking you to help me. Our mutual master would stride naked into — Judith Tarr
"I am asking you to help me. Our mutual master would stride naked into the desert, trusting in God and in his own brilliance to shield him from the sun. But the desert knows only that it is. Neither gods nor cleverness mean anything to it."
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Judith Tarr
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Judith Tarr is an American fantasy and science fiction author.
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"“Peace.” Gerbert rolled the word on his tongue. “Is that what it is? I’d been calling it happiness.”"
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"There was no help for it. He was what he was, and that was an incorrigible meddler. Which, he reflected, was not an inadequate description of a mage."
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"Now there was sophistry. A mage was a perilous beast, but a mage who was also a logician and a theologian was deadly enough to outface the devil himself."
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"You are a fool, sir priest. Ignorance may excuse you. It will certainly kill you."
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"“I would tell you that the West is sadly fallen. What men knew once, they know no longer, nor want to know. It is all iron and edged blades, and lord smiting lord for a fistful of power. They dream of empires, and they kill for a furlong of wasteland. “But I, my lord, I want to know what the world is.”"
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