#book 22

[adriles]

when we’re done with our overwhelming grief we’ll eat i guess

[twi-quotes]

“Of such rank and injust betrayal of all I held dear, my heart could only twist and break and grieve for the goodness now wronged before mine eyes.” –Mrsha the Grieving, in regards to the time Numbtongue ate her lemon tart.

~ 8.15

[greekmythcomix]

[mistresatan]

Famous Achilles line.

The Iliad (p. 550)

[pumpkinpiesquished]

“You yellow dogs, you thought I’d never make it home from the land of Troy. You took my house to plunder, twisted my maids to serve your beds. You dared bid for my wife while I was still alive. Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven, contempt for what men say of you hereafter. Your last hour has come. You die in blood.”

– Odysseus in Book Twenty-Two: Death in the Great Hall

[ultramilous]

“Would to god my rage, my fury would drive me now to hack your flesh away and eat you raw—such agonies you have caused me!”

‘The Iliad’ by Homer, translation by Robert Fagles

[curligurl0896]

So it's occured to me that a testament to how cruel Cassie's "nonviolent" solution in book 22 was is the fact that David begs Rachel to kill him in book 48. I say this because I feel like David is someone who very much values his own skin-- we see in book 21 that he was willing to surrender to Visser Three the moment he realized that he was in a situation where he very well might die. And while that alone doesn't necessarily make someone a bad person (not everyone has nerves of steel like the Animorphs do), it does mean that David is selfish enough to value his own life over the greater good. He'd probably choose infestation in a heartbeat if it meant that he won't have to die, and especially if it meant he could get back all the creature comforts he lost when his house was destroyed. Yet there he is in book 48, begging Rachel to kill him-- and he does this entirely with the sole intention of self preservation, as he did before. What I'm trying to say here is, life as a rat must have been so genuinely fucking miserable for David in order for him to think that death was the better option.

[whiskeycoloredhair]

I love the part were Ciel etc goes to the queen for an audience in book 22 and at the gate theres double Charles and on Phipp’s shoulder theres a chicken standing. I was so confused and amused by the fact that no one talks about the chicken or ask questions. Then I was reminded that the chicken is a coninue to the easter chapter were Charles and Charles egg was hatching.