I'm thinking of something Lymond says about planning your future and then the hand of Fate reaches over your shoulder and upsets all the pieces. Only he says it in far more elegant terms. *g*
Possibly to Richard, IIRC - the scene in the dell in GoK perhaps? ::goes to check::
"Why? I made one mistake. Who doesn't? But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands."
I had another Lymond moment earlier today, during a otherwise uninspiring lecture on ergonomics. The sacrum was labelled in a diagram of the spine. I wrote "sit on my sacrum and sneer" on my notepad, knowing it was Lymond but unable to place it. I've just realised that he says it to Will Scott about Mariotta.
I love that passage. It's one of many I used to recite at bus stops. Still do. Badly. "Of course it left me maimed and unserviceable, deformed and dangerous to associate with, but what has happened to common charity?" I think I have all the words wrong now... time to reread.
"sit on my sacrum and sneer"
LOL - wouldn't have got it! Well done!
I love it when random words or contexts evoke memories of Lymond and his mellifluous comments.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2007-10-17 08:05 pm (UTC)Possibly to Richard, IIRC - the scene in the dell in GoK perhaps? ::goes to check::
no subject
Date: 2007-10-17 08:19 pm (UTC)GoK, Arrow 1990 edition, p.448:
"Why? I made one mistake. Who doesn't? But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands."
I had another Lymond moment earlier today, during a otherwise uninspiring lecture on ergonomics. The sacrum was labelled in a diagram of the spine. I wrote "sit on my sacrum and sneer" on my notepad, knowing it was Lymond but unable to place it. I've just realised that he says it to Will Scott about Mariotta.
no subject
Date: 2007-10-17 10:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-19 01:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-19 05:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-19 05:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-19 05:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-19 01:44 pm (UTC)"sit on my sacrum and sneer"
LOL - wouldn't have got it! Well done!
I love it when random words or contexts evoke memories of Lymond and his mellifluous comments.
no subject
Date: 2007-10-19 01:41 pm (UTC)Lymond says everything in more elegant terms. Isn't it Gideon who says to him, "I wish to God you'd talk in prose sometimes, like normal people"?
Gotta love Gideon.
Yes, Lymond is a good example of this. As of so many things.