Wednesday, October 22, 2008
BWC post 90 THE HERETICS - another rescue
ch19 Cesare (cont) From the crowd, a roar swelled and the margins of the arena collapsed inwards to the two in the center. Some reached for Cesare, hoisted him up and away. Many reached for the monk. I was among them. I slid in low, and yanked him down. "This way, you suicidal genius!" Hanging onto...
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BWC - post 89 THE HERETICS - Columbina's view of the duel
ch19 Cesare (cont) I heard the vehement tones of Irish profanity well before I pushed and wriggled my way to the front of the circle. Turlough, very much the worse for wear, was poised in a fighting stance, his tongue wagging in its own language, but whatever he said, it was clear enough what he...
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BWC - post 88 THE HERETICS - Recognizing another old acquaintance
ch 19 Cesare (cont) I’d heard stories since coming into Italy… He’d worn Cardinal’s red, until his older brother died-—a never-solved case of murder, ‘t was said, brutal but not senseless if regarded from a certain point of view. Cesare’s, for instance… He stood over me. The hair prickled at the...
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BWC post 87 - THE HERETICS - meeting Cesare
19-- Cesare In and out of darkness… I was going… where? looking for something… Someone? I was… who? Through my head pain lanced like a hot wire. Ah… a fight! Clear and bright that image came to me… And I’d been winning… Until…until what? Memories muddled and jigged together. I tossed about in my own...
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Sorry to have no chapters... but here's a photo prompt...
I've got all the book on my laptop currently, and we had to disable the wireless because it was messin' with internet connectivity... This will be resolved soon! In the meantime... From the trove of my daughter, Marika's trove of photos, this one from Cat Tails, Spokane: (see more of these shots in...
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
BWC - post 86 - THE HERETICS - looking for the sword
CH 18 Condottieri Camp (cont) The guard stalked off, dragging the stumbling little monk behind. Gone again, just when I’d had him in my hands… Gian took my arm in a painfully firm grip, and hustled me along until we were back in the shelter of his tent. "You know better than I, but I’m supposing...
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BWC - post 85 - THE HERETICS - Columbina & Gian find Turlough
ch 18 Condottieri Camp (cont) But I did not have time for sadness. Surely, it would make its own time. For now, I could only do as he did: pretend to myself that I did not see what I saw, and get on with necessity. I told him of the monk. In that telling, urgency returned and heightened. Gian only...
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Monday, September 29, 2008
BWC post 84 - THE HERETICS - Columbina explains to Gian
ch 18 Condotierri's Camp (cont) "What are you doing here?" he demanded again but in a harder, more haunted voice. What could I say? How much could I tell him? I didn’t know—I feared to guess wrongly… I did the only thing I could to buy the time to decide: I ‘swooned.’ In this chaotic place, so far...
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BWC - post 83 - THE HERETICS - Reunions
18-- Condottieri Camp I found the camp of the condottieri on a long hillside set aglow by the late afternoon sun. It was not difficult: the stink of it overwhelmed the countryside's own summer scents. Any trees that had stood in the meadow or around its fringes now supported tents, surrounded...
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BWC - post 82 - THE HERETICS - Interlude: Two New Voices
INTERLUDE Padrone Names… I have had many, and have forgotten them all… Like the sycophantic minions, the partisans, the coteries, names come and go and are finally of no importance. Like lifetimes. I have lived many, before this… before so long ago adopting this life-without-death that at least...
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