[LMB] TSK:B Why Fawn was considered a fool

[Scott Raun]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:32:46AM +0100, Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan wrote:
> The part where Aunt Nattie uses Dag's eyes to see Fawn is very
> telling.  Makes you wonder why all the Lakewalkers aren't more
> enchanted with her if it's her ground that's so appealing.  Or maybe
> Dag is more open to the innovation and exuberance of youth he sees in
> her.

>From the way I read it, Dag wasn't loaning his _eyes_, he was loaning
his _sight_.

> "My word," breathed Nattie. "My word." The timeless moment
> stretched. Then she said, "Come on, patroller. There isn't hardly
> nothing human in the wide green world could be as pretty as that."
> 
> "That's what I thought," said Dag. "You're seeing her ground as well
> as her face, you know. Seeing her as I do."

I read this as an homage to that old proverb, "Beauty is in the eye of
the beholder."

-- 
Scott Raun
sraun at fireopal.org