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Date Posted: Wed, September 06 2023, 7:42:48
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Wednesday, September 6, 2023

The following quotation is from An Echo In The Bone by Diane Gabaldon. Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved. Chapter31 A Guided Tour Through the Chambers of the Heart


If one were in the mood to count blessings - and, oddly enough, I seemed to be - here was another one. I had seen dawnings in warm seas that came like the bloom of some tremendous flower, a great, slow unfurling of heat and light. This was a northern sunrise, like the slow opening of a bivalve’s shell - cold and delicate, the sky shimmering nacre over a soft gray sea. There was something intimate about it, I thought, as though it presaged a day of secrets.

Just as I was getting well stuck into the poetic thoughts. They were interrupted by a shout of “Sail, ho!” from directly above me, Captain Stebbing’s violet painted china cup shattered on the deck, and I whirled to see the tip of a white triangle on the horizon behind us, growing larger by the second.

The next few moments were filled with low comedy, as I rushed into the captain’s cabin so flustered and out of breath that I was unable to do more than gasp, “Ho! . . . s’l . . . Ho!” like a demented Santa Claus.

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