[Dove] Feathers in the Wind

[Dove Brown]

This is mainly for bits and pieces that catch my attention, and I don't want to lose track of.

Feel free to discuss!

[Dove Brown]

Pycon sized books!


This little one is just 40mm tall and 30mm wide. It was made in the early 1500s, supposedly for Anne Boleyn, and now resides in the British Library.


This one, on the other hand, is larger (100mm by 80mm), but a century earlier.

[Dove Brown]

At the end we have only ourselves anyway, wherever it comes down. So she rose from the floor, and she mastered the tremor in her voice, and said to the Dark God,
'You will have nothing of me that you do not take.'

--Guy Gavriel Kay
The Summer Tree

[Dove Brown]

These are the signs of the king honor-broke–
Pride coming first over all,
Treading the backs and the necks of his folk
That he alone might stand tall,
Giving himself to desire that are base,
Tyrannous, cunning and cruel
Bring him down – set someone else in his place
Such man are not fit to rule

Oathbreakers
Mercedes Lackey

[Dove Brown]

The infamous seventeenth-century judge. George Jeffreys, pointed his stick at one of the rebels hauled before him in the famous 'bloody assizes' saying:

'There is a rogue at the end of my cane.'

'At which end, my Lord?' retorted the man.

[Dove Brown]

It is never the things you do,
but the way that you do them.


Rosemary Sutcliff
The Lantern Bearers

[Dove Brown]

Once is an accident.
Twice is coincidence.
Three times is deliberate action.

Many times only results from wilful ignorance of reality - on one side or the other.

[Dove Brown]

"Assholes are universal. Everyone has one.

Most people are smart enough not to display theirs in public."

[Dove Brown]

There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays
And every single one of them is right.

Rudyard Kipling
In the Neolithic Age