Status Updates From The turning wheels.

'War and love, these two are the greatest things, and having known them you can know no more, nor can they be repeated in all their glory.'

Someone just died. In one of the if not they most horrific was, that I could not have even imagined. Yet the horror is only one ingredient of the scene. However the tradegy imbued with this, for the victim and their closests family member, and the realization of what precipitated the event, left me not horrified with what I read for long but instead with a profound sense of sadness.
THAR IS MASTER STORYTELLING!

'considered themselves happy because they were free to live a comfort less life,'

'Like a blow, a word could not be recalled; it was irrevocable, which was why she used parables so often, for most of the could mean many things, and with meanings, as with so much else, there was safety in numbers.'

'Oh those,' Rinkals said. 'Those I bought from the king. They are the mothers of his young wives who trouble him and being skilled in the domestic arts will be a comfort to me, for daily my need of comfort grows.'
'But they will not trouble you?'
'Why would they? I do not sleep with their daughters.'


😂I have no idea how to argue with that

'Men are like children, always looking and prying at things which don't concern them. Men are all the same, Louisa, they are no good, but the world would be a dull place for us without them. They are sent by God to plague us, as He has, in His wisdom, give fleas to dogs.'

🤣🤣🤣Tante Anna De Jong is at it again.

'The silence of the low veld was broken for ever. These people had come to stay. It was broken like the shell of an egg. The sharp ring of axes sounded, the cries of drivers to their oxen and the barking of dogs. Where there had been peace there was now activity.'

'It is not good to be a woman,' she said.
'it is very good. For women get everything both great and small. We are the fire; and men, ach, men are nothing. Flint and steel which strike useless sparks. Men are empty drums which make much noise about small things, while we are the vessels carrying the future in our wombs.'

😂😂Really Tante Anna? Wow

'Her flatulence being chronic was only a subject for thought and conversation when all others failed her. It remained a conversational reserve, a last line of defence, a cross she either bore with silent fortitude or when the occasion demanded it, flaunted. '

Tante Anna is a legend 😂

'Besides, she did not believe in equity and saw no reason to practise it. It was just one of the many unpractical things which men had invented and liked to talk about.'

😂😂Tante Anna De Jong is quickly becoming one of my favorite characters I have ever come across

'For if they left him the greater decisions, he also left them the lesser. In this lay the great strength of this nation, their capacity for decentralization; in it also lay their weakness. For so competent were they as individuals that they hesitated to combine even when it was necessary to do so; acknowledging no man their master, each wished to lead and declined to follow.'

I will take an interesting character over a likable character any day of the week. So far there has been no likable characters and I am liking every bit of it. 😁