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