2015-08-29 16:38:56 +02:00
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title: "Wisdom from the Fool (Assassin's Quest)"
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category: [english]
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tags: [english, books, farseers, fitz, fool]
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*As some people already know, I am currently re-reading The Farseer Trilogy
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2015-10-10 09:21:20 +02:00
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because I learnt there are more books that are located in the same world.*
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*I didn't remember there was anything gender related there, but there was
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2015-08-29 16:38:56 +02:00
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and it's too good to not share.*
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* Fitz: *warningly* Fool
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* Fool: Ah. Perhaps the truth is, I fear to show her my proof, lest ever
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afterwards she find all other men a disappointment. What does it matter
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what she thinks? Let her think whatever is easiest for her to believe.
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* Fitz: Meaning?
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* Fool: She needed somone to confide in and, for a time, chose me. Perhaps
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it was easier for her to do that if she believed I was a woman, also.
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That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never
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become accustomed to. The great importance you attach to what gender one
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is.
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* Fitz: Well it is important...
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* Fool: Rubbish. Mere plumbing when all is said and done. Why is it
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important?
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* Fitz: *at a loss of words*
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* Fitz: Could you not simply tell her you are a man and let the issue be
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laid to rest?
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* Fool: That would scarcely lay it to rest Fitz. For then she would need
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to know why, if I am a man, I do not desire her. It would have to be
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either in me, or something I perceived as a fault in her. No. I do not
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think anything needs to be said on that topic. Starling, however, has
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the ministrel's failing. She thinks that everything in the world, no
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matter how private, should be a topic for discussion. Or better yet,
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made into a song. Ah, yes!
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*Fool makes a mocking song imitating Starling.*
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* Fitz: Did you ever stop to think you might hurt her feelings?
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* Fool: I gave it as much thought as she gave to whether such an allegation
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might hurt mine.
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* Fool: Admit it. You asked that question with never a thought as to
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whether it would hurt my vanity. How would you feel if I demanded proof
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that you were a man? Ah! Such a thing to waste words on, with all else
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we must confort. Let it go Fitz, and I will as well. Let her refer to me
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as "she" as much as she wishes. I will do my best to ignore it.
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* Fitz: It is only that she thinks that you love me.
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* Fool: I do.
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* Fitz: I mean, as a man and a woman love.
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* Fool: And how is that?
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* Fitz: I mean.... For bedding. For...
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* Fool: And is that how a man loves a woman. For bedding?
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* Fitz: It's a part of it.
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* Fool: You are confusing plumbing and love again.
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* Fitz: It's more than plumbing!
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* Fool: I see. Tell me, Fitz, did you love Molly or that which was under
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her skirts?
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* Fitz: I love Molly and all that is a part of her
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* Fool: There, now you have said it. And I love you, and all that is a
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part of you. And do you not return that to me?
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* Fitz: You know I love you. After all that has been between us, how can
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you even ask? But I love you as a man loves another man ...
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* Fool: *jumps to fallen log crying dramatically* He loves me, he says!
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And I love him!
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