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Date Posted: Tue, September 05 2023, 9:34:30
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Tuesday, September 5, 2023

The following quotation is from An Echo In The Bone by Diane Gabaldon. Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved. Chapter30 Ships That Pass In The Night


I seized the rail and more or less rolled over it, skirts flying. I hung by my hands for a terrifying instant, feeling my fingers slide across the wet wood, groping with my toes for the rope ladder the cutter’s crew had thrown over the rail. A roll of the ship threw me hard against the side, I lost my grip, plunged several feet, and caught the ladder, just above the cutter’s deck.

The rope had burned through my right hand, and it felt as though I’d lost all the skin off my palm, but there was no time to trouble about that now. Any minute, one of the cutter’s crew would see me, and -

Timing my jump to the next heave of the cutter’s deck, I let go and landed like a bag of rocks. A sharp pain shot up the middle of my right knee, but I staggered to my feet, lurching to and fro with the roll of the deck, and lunged toward the companionway.

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[> This whole situation could make me roll my eyes if Diana hadn’t written it. Like TT I accept it totally wholeheartedly when she describes it. -- Kathy in PA, Tue, September 05 2023, 17:02:49


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[> [> I had to read this through several times to sort out what ship they were on, which captain was who, and what the heck happened to Claire's skirt. -- kgp, Wed, September 06 2023, 7:45:14


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