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Date Posted: Tue, August 16 2022, 19:55:05
Author: CindyG
Subject: QOTD for Wednesday, August 17, 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.

“It wasn’t only the writer that disturbed him. Hearing bits of what was to come from Claire and Bree and Roger Mac frequently alarmed him, but their physical presence was reassuring; whatever horrible events were to happen, many folk had survived them. Still, he kent well enough that while none of his family would ever lie to him, they did often temper what they said to him. Frank Randall was another thing: an historian, whose account of what was going to happen in the next few years would be…
Well, he didn’t ken exactly what it might be. Frightening, perhaps. Upsetting, maybe. Maybe reassuring…in spots.
Frank Randall wasn’t smiling, but he looked pleasant enough. Lines in his face that cut deep. Well, the man had been through a war.
‘To say nothing of bein’ married to Claire,’ he said aloud, and was surprised at the sound of his voice. He picked up his wineglass and took a mouthful, holding it for a moment, but then swallowed and turned the book over.
‘Well, I dinna ken if I forgive ye or not, Englishman,’ he murmured, opening the cover and taking a cleansing breath of cedar. ‘Or you me, but let’s see what ye have to say to me, then.’”

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[> I wonder if Frank was intentionally writing with Jamie in mind. I'm sure he never completely got over him, not with Brianna to look at, but by this time Frank was seriously involved with another woman and about to ask for divorce. -- kgp, Wed, August 17 2022, 11:42:32


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[> [> This is where I get mixed up. I thought he specifically mentioned Jamie dying at some battle that’s coming up. I did read the book, LOL, but for the life of me can’t remember how this part played out. -- Kathy in PA, Wed, August 17 2022, 17:26:00


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[> [> [> He wrote that a Jamie Fraser died at Kings Mountain, a turning point in the southern prosecution of the revolution. I wonder if that were fact, or if Frank were satisfying a personal wish that Jamie be killed. -- kgp, Sun, August 21 2022, 18:58:12


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