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Hitting a bit close to home. Close to the war American is fighting. Close to the grief of loosing a friend.

I will not fear…the end of this book!
Political intrigue, philosophical discourse, rules of negotiation. The story is driven by politics more than anything.

‘I live in the cycle of being where the war of good and evil has its arena. We are at a turning point in the succession of ages and we have our parts to play.’

‘Love, my child, love, love!- (then he had done with grief)
‘Love, my child.’ Ere I answered he was gone, And none was left to live in all the world.

Because unmotjhered babes, he thought, had need Of Mother Nature more than others use.’

The lord bears more weight than the actual storyline.

The sixteenth person
And You. Who are You? Who is it that I am writing for? Are You a traveller who has cheated Tides and crossed Broken Floors and Derelict Stairs to reach these Halls? Or are You perhaps someone who inhabits my own Halls long after I am dead?

Two heroes meet in the battlefield and figure out that their families are friends. They pledge to do each other no harm and swap armour. Unfortunately one is tricked by Zeus and swaps his bronze armour for Gold…

‘The ducks swallow the worms, and the foxes kill the ducks, and the men shoot the foxes and the devil hunts the men.’ Pg 957

This book is Ken’s outlet for his architecturophilia. Good pace and storytelling.

‘The small boys came early to the hanging.’

‘If earls' daughters were allowed to marry whom they please, we'd all be ruled by strolling minstrels and dark-eyed outlaws.’