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Date Posted: Mon, August 15 2022, 20:53:36
Author: CindyG
Subject: QOTD for Tuesday, August 16, 2022

The following quote is from Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 17, Reading by Firelight. Copyright 2021 by Diana Gabaldon, all rights reserved.

“Nay doubt it was the thought of reluctant forgiveness that made him pick up the book Brianna had brought for herself—Frank Randall’s book. The Soul of a Rebel.
‘Mmphm,’ he said, and drew it out of the stack, turning it over in his hands. It felt strange; a good weight and size, sound binding, but the paper cover was printed with a very peculiar tartan background in pink and green, on which there was a square of pale green with a decent wee painting of the basket hilt of a Scottish broadsword and a bit of the blade. Below the square, the subtitle, The Scottish Roots of the American Revolution. What made it feel odd, though, was the fact that it was wrapped in a transparent sheet of something that wasn’t paper, slick under his touch. Plastic, Brianna had told him when he asked. He kent the word, all right, but not with this meaning. He turned the book over to look at the photograph—he was becoming halfway accustomed to photographs, but it still took him back a bit to see the man looking out at him like that.
He pressed his thumb firmly over Frank Randall’s nose, then lifted it. He tilted the book from side to side, letting light from the fire play over the plastic covering. He’d made a very faint smudge, not visible if you were looking straight at it.
Suddenly ashamed of this childishness, he erased the mark with his shirtsleeve and set the book on his knee. The photograph looked calmly up at him through dark-rimmed spectacles.”

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[> This was so enjoyable to read! I didn’t remember it. Jamie gets the meaning of plastic that I find hard to grasp and what a hoot to kind of “thumb his nose” at Frank đŸ€Ł. Typical Jamie, he can’t be that petty and, after all, he got both girls. -- Kathy in PA, Tue, August 16 2022, 12:18:12

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[> That is such a normal reaction! Usually Jamie is 'the bigger man', it's fun to see that Frank brings out the petty. -- kgp, Tue, August 16 2022, 18:14:36

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