Steve Berliner
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
At the end of The Curse Of Chalion, Palli quietly took Cazaril's poem to the Lady Of Spring. As you won't be revisiting Chalion-Ibra, in your mind, what happened to that poem? The way Palli "unobtrusively pocketed" that little slip of paper seemed like foreshadowing of greater things...
Lois McMaster Bujold
Yep. Palli took it because he was impressed with it, and didn't want Caz to throw it away. Despite his rocky authorial start, I see Caz as a future Quintarian religious poet (in his rare spare time) of lasting merit, in the mode of William Blake but more lyrical. Words that make the hairs stand up on readers' necks, that mean more than they mean, as he tries to fumblingly explain. The Daughter of Spring is a patroness of poetry, after all; he seeks to make flowers to lay on Her altar. And to recapture, as if in a dream, some ghost of that overwhelming moment of union.
He never credits his own poetic power, because it falls so far short of his direct experience of Her.
Ta, L.
Yep. Palli took it because he was impressed with it, and didn't want Caz to throw it away. Despite his rocky authorial start, I see Caz as a future Quintarian religious poet (in his rare spare time) of lasting merit, in the mode of William Blake but more lyrical. Words that make the hairs stand up on readers' necks, that mean more than they mean, as he tries to fumblingly explain. The Daughter of Spring is a patroness of poetry, after all; he seeks to make flowers to lay on Her altar. And to recapture, as if in a dream, some ghost of that overwhelming moment of union.
He never credits his own poetic power, because it falls so far short of his direct experience of Her.
Ta, L.
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