diff --git a/_drafts/2015-08-29-wisdom-from-fool.md b/_drafts/2015-08-29-wisdom-from-fool.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc30101 --- /dev/null +++ b/_drafts/2015-08-29-wisdom-from-fool.md @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +--- +layout: post +comments: true +title: "Wisdom from the Fool (Assassin's Quest)" +category: [english] +tags: [english, books, farseers, fitz, fool] +--- + +*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!