VoyForums

Mon, May 19 2025, 13:36:23 PDT [ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, [4], 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: Fri, June 09 2023, 6:43:37
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Friday, June 9, 2023

The following quotation is from Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2021 All Rights Reserved. Chapter 23 Trout-Fishing in America, Part Two


“Ye never ken how it will be.” Jamie lifted one shoulder and let it fall; he’d lost the lace that bound his hair, snagged by a tree branch, and the thick red strands stirred in the evening breeze. “A fight like that, I mean. What ye recall and what ye don’t. I remember everything about that night, though - and the day beyond it.”

Roger nodded but didn’t speak. It was true that Presbyterians had no sacrament of Confession - and he rather regretted that they didn’t; it was a useful thing to have in your pocket. Particularly, he supposed, if you led the sort of life Jamie had. But any minister knows the soul’s need to speak and be understood, and that he could give.

“I expect ye do,” he said. “Do ye regret it, then? Telling the men to kill them all, I mean?”

“Not for an instant.”

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

[> I really felt that the massacre was something like calling an exterminator to get rid of rats or cockroaches. Individually, the group has some good qualities, but in a mob they are a menace to the homeowners, or in this case, the people of the county. -- Janet, Fri, June 09 2023, 10:58:28


[ Edit | View ]


[> [> Yes, they had been committing atrocities in the area, they had burned cabins, murdered, robbed, etc. He needed to let it be known that you can't get away with that on the Ridge. -- kgp, Fri, June 09 2023, 11:34:20


[ Edit | View ]



[> I started the week thinking I'd focus on Rachel but these deep conversations between Jamie and Roger reached out to me. -- kgp, Fri, June 09 2023, 13:11:20


[ Edit | View ]


[> [> They’re really good to reread. I totally agreed with killing them all but struggled with him killing the man that raped Claire later. As I write that though I feel that it’s no different and I’m wrong. Because he’s a fat lumpkin and he didn’t physically attack Claire somehow made him seem less evil to me than the Browns. But mob mentality - he paid the price. -- Kathy in PA, Fri, June 09 2023, 14:18:53


[ Edit | View ]





[ Contact Forum Admin ]



Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.