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Date Posted: Thu, February 03 2022, 5:56:16
Author: LadyDuBois
Subject: QOTD for Thursday, Feb 3, 2022. The following is from "The Space Between" written by Diana Gabaldon All Rights Reserved

He went to the tall gabled window that looked out over the Seine.

That particular view of the river had changed barely at all in the last two hundred years; he’d seen it at several different times. He hadn’t always owned this house, but it had stood in this street since 1620, and he always managed to get in briefly, if only to reestablish his own sense of reality after a passage.

Only the trees changed in his view of the river, and sometimes a strange-looking boat would be there. But the rest was always the same and no doubt always would be: the old fishermen, catching their supper off the landing in stubborn silence, each guarding his space with outthrust elbows, the younger ones, barefoot and slump-shouldered with exhaustion, laying out their nets to dry, naked little boys diving off the quay. It gave him a soothing sense of eternity, watching the river. Perhaps it didn’t matter so much if he must one day die?

“The devil it doesn’t,” he murmured to himself, and glanced up at the sky. Venus shone bright. He should go.

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[> Is this the Comte or Master Raymond?? I have only read this book once and don't recall it all. Will have to do a re-read soon. Right now still doing some Bee keeping. 🐝🐝🐝 -- JamesG, Thu, February 03 2022, 16:23:17


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[> [> St Germain, the little rat that he is/was. -- LadyDuBois, Fri, February 04 2022, 6:30:25


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[> [> [> So we have a frog and a rat. If we can git them up to lock "Ness" or would be interesting. 🐸🐀🐉 -- JamesG, Fri, February 04 2022, 10:04:17


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[> [> [> [> "it" would be interesting -- JamesG, Fri, February 04 2022, 10:07:59


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