“Everyone is useful only I alone am inept outlandish. I alone differ from others but I seek the milk of the Mother the Way.…”
In a voice that was hoarse and hesitant because he had not spoken any words for a long time, Falk replied with the next verse of the Old Canon:
“Everyone is useful
only I alone
am inept
outlandish.
I alone differ from others
but I seek
the milk of the Mother
the Way.…”
“Ha ha ha!” said the old man. “Do you, Yellow Eyes? Come on, sit down, here by the hearth. Outlandish, yes yes, yes indeed. You are outlandish. How far out the land?—who knows?
