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[tuulikki]

Why is it that guys who think they're the Master Race always look like walking advertisements for retroactive abortion?

Dies the Fire, S.M. Stirling

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[tuulikki]

‘I wouldn’t mind learning how to do that fancy knife stuff myself. Is it Ojibwa too?’ Eric picked up the bundle of gear; Havel liked that, and the absence of pouting. ‘Nah, Karelian,’ he replied genially. ‘Force Recon refined my technique, but Dad taught me the basics of – he tapped the knife – ‘the puukko.’ ‘Karelian?’ Eric asked. ‘Eastern Finland, or it used to be – where the poets and shamans and knife-waving crazies came from. Farther west you get Tvastlanders, who’re so dull they might as well be Swedes like you.’ ‘I’m Yankee on Mom’s side – English.’ ‘Well, I’m sorry for you and all, but wouldn’t it be better to keep that quiet?’

Dies The Fire, S.M. Stirling

Mike Havel is such a gift.

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Astrid murmured aloud, but from the way her lips moved was probably not aware of it: ‘for he was young, and he was king, the lord of a fell people’. Alleyne Loring’s eyebrows went up as he took in Astrid Larsson’s tall elegant figure. Then he saw the details of white tree and stars on the black leather of her tunic, and his smile widened into a boyish grin. ‘Elen sila lumen’ omentielvo,’ he said.

The Protector’s War, S.M. Stirling

tfw civilization has collapsed but you haven’t let that get in the way of living your best Tolkien nerd life

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“We’ve fallen out of history, history with a capital H.” Havel raised a brow. “How can you be outside history? Sure, maybe nobody will record it, but it’ll still be there.” “Ever read the Iliad or the Odyssey? … They were composed to be recited aloud and memorized, and they’re full of bits from a lot earlier - half a millennium earlier, from the fall of Troy, with some chunks that may have been a thousand years old or more when Homer was singing for his supper. That’s how people in that type of culture remember things - just like the sagas, only those got written down sooner. It’s not history. It’s folk-memory, the time of legends and heroes and myths, and anything that happens gets crammed into that framework. A sense of historical time needs a high civilization, and a particular type of one at that. Barbarians and tribes live in mythic time, legend time, not an ordered progression of centuries going from somewhere to somewhere. It might be better to say they’re timeless.”

Dies the Fire, S.M. Stirling

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