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Date Posted: 18:24:24 06/04/12 Mon
Author: LynnC
Subject: QOTD for Tuesday, June 5

The following quote is taken from Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 39, To Ransom A Man's Soul, Copyright © 1991 by Diana Gabaldon, All Rights Reserved.

Around and around the mulberry bush, the monkey chased the weasel. But something was wrong, it was the weasel chasing me, a weasel with sharp white teeth that pierced my forearm. I hit out at it and the teeth let go, but the claws...around and around the mulberry bush....
The demon had me up against the wall; I could feel stone behind my head and stone beneath my grasping fingers, and a stone-hard body pressing hard against me, bony knee between my own, stone and bone, between my own...legs, more stony hardness...ah. A softness amidst the hardness of life, pleasant coolness in the heat, comfort in the midst of woe...
We fell locked together to the floor, rolling over and over, tangled in the folds of fallen tapestry, washed in the drafts of cold air from the window. The mists of madness began to recede.

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[> I have never been clear about this scene. Was it drug induced, actual "witch craft" or a combination of the two? -- Lady Linda, 05:22:32 06/05/12 Tue


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[> I understood it to be the opium. -- LynnC, 05:37:21 06/05/12 Tue


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[> [> Me too. But I think we're supposed to accept there is something 'other' (God, I think) in this as well. -- jayn, 09:19:25 06/05/12 Tue


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