📖 Recent Quotes 📖

• [ from Inanna's Journey to Hell ]
  
  Now she is coming to death's kingdom,
  she is the mother desolate
  in a desolate place; where once
  he was alive, now he lies
  like a young bull felled to the ground.
  Into his face she stares, seeing
  what she has lost - his mother
  who has lost him to death's kingdom.
  O the agony she bears,
  shutting in the wilderness,
  she is the mother suffering so much.
  'It is you'
  she cries to him,
  'but you are changed.'

  an excerpt from Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia, written by N. K. Sandars in 1971

• [ don't eat food offered to you the underworld! From 'Inanna's Journey to Hell']
  They will offer water from the river,
  do not take the water of death.
  They will give you grain from the fields
  of the dead, do not take that seed.

  an excerpt from Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia, written by N. K. Sandars in 1971

• One god is greater than all great gods,
  a fairer fame, the word of command,
  the word from heaven, O Marduk,
  greater than all great gods, the honor
  and the fame, the will of Anu, great
  command, unfaltering and eternal word!
  Where there is action the first to act,
  where there is government the first to govern;

  an excerpt from The Babylonian Creation, written by Anonymous in -900

📓 Recent Notes 📓

• Also: it's so painful when the author telegraphs the solution to the big trilogy; how will the hero solve the world-threatening problem? Now we know; she's basically almost told us; but none of the characters have picked up on it… and the audiobook still has like 10 hours to go.

  an note about Assassin's Quest, written by Robin Hobb in 1997

• I found this very frustrating but I still listened to the whole thing; usually I have MORE patience with books in audio form. Maybe I would have been even more frustrated if this was on paper? Anyway - there's a lot of plot in the back half of this book, which was good for the genre, but during much of it - MOST of it - the hero just meanders along, with hardly any purpose or volition. It's a shaggy dog (pejorative).
  
  The hero is in these repeating cycles of passivity, then grievous injury, and then montages of recovery. The cliche of being in and out of consciousness. So many episodes of this. Somebody give this lady an editor.

  an note about Assassin's Quest, written by Robin Hobb in 1997

• Once you're two books into a trilogy, are you really going to stop?

  an note about Assassin's Quest, written by Robin Hobb in 1997

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