[LMB] Winterfair Gifts

Azalais Aranxta tiamat at tsoft.com
Thu Dec 6 21:33:25 GMT 2007


On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Katherine Collett wrote:

>
> On Dec 5, 2007, at 1:10 AM, Marna wrote:
>
> > It's a lovely little romance, not nearly as slight as it looks on the
> > surface, and I love it very much. Even if - especially as, actually -
> > the happy ending is so fragile, conditional, and temporary.
> >
> This reminds me of a hypothesis -- made in one of Diane Duane's Young
> Wizards books, maybe? --that all love is only possible because all
> human life is so fragile and temporary ... that it's the poignancy of
> knowing that we will lose each other that makes us love each other?

I definitely don't believe that.

I'm also pretty sure it's not that series because Death is the
creation of the Lone Power, which would make it Not A Good Thing,
and this is one of many reasons I prefer DD to JKR.

~malfoy :)

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