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-title: "Wisdom from the Fool (Assassin's Quest)"
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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
- 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!