| I did not send for you only because I had to... 578 |
[Mar. 4th, 2010|02:58 am] |
I did not send for you only because I had to somehow try to come to terms with what happened to me when you blocked Camena's arrowSolores was a court deception, no more than that: so they might not think me unmanned by dangerI spent the whole night pacing or at my desk, trying to riddle out where my life has now comeWhat it means that my wife and only living son should try to kill me, and fail only because of youAnd thinking about that, consumed by it, I only realized near dawn that I had left you alone all nightMy dear, will you ever forgive me for that?"
I want time to stop, she was thinking, wiping vainly at her tears, trying to see him clearlyI want never to leave this room, I want to hear these words spoken over and over, endlessly, until I die
"I made a decision on my ride," he said"I was thinking about what Isolla had said and I was finally able to accept that she was rightSince I will not, since I cannot possibly change what I am committed to doing here, I must be prepared to pay all of |
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| Before the Ember Days of spring they would leave... 276 |
[Feb. 13th, 2010|03:40 am] |
Before the Ember Days of spring they would leave their current Astibar, Tregea, Ferraut loop and head south across the wide grainlands of CertandoAnd at that point, Ales-san had said, a great many things might changeOne way or another, he'd repeated
He hadn't smiled, saying any of this, though he was a man with an easy smile
Devin remembered how Catriana had tossed her hair then, with a knowing, almost an angry look in her blue eyes
"It's Alienor, isn't it?" she demanded, virtually an accusation"It's that woman at Castle Borso
Alessan's mouth had twisted in surprise and then amusement"Not so, my dear," he'd said"We'll stop at Borso, but this has nothing to do with her at allIf I didn't know better, if I didn't know your heart belonged only to Devin, I'd say you sounded jealous, my darling
The gibe had entirely the desired effectCatriana had stormed off, and Devin, almost as embarrassed himself, had quickly changed the subjectAlessan had a way of doing that to youBehind the deep, effortless courtesy and the genuine camaraderie, there existed a |
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| Soon, there will be such a horrifying gap between... 390 |
[Feb. 12th, 2010|03:30 am] |
Soon, there will be such a horrifying gap between the rich and the poor that chaos will break out and another great civilization will collapseGreat civilizations collapsed when the gap between the haves and havenots was too greatAmerica is on the same course, proving once again that history repeats itself, because we do not learn from historyWe only memorize historical dates and names, not the lesson
"Aren't prices supposed to go up?" I asked
"Not in an educated society with a well-run governmentPrices should actually come downOf course, that is often only true in theoryPrices go up because of greed and fear caused by ignoranceIf schools taught people about money, |
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| Because she had gone, because she had left them... 500 |
[Feb. 11th, 2010|03:26 am] |
Because she had gone, because she had left them and wasn't there any longerThere was more grey, she saw, in her mother's hair, and her heart ached as she stood there in mild sunlight to see how worn and hard her mother's hands were, and how tired the kind face wasShe had always thought of her mother as a young woman, until Tiena, the baby, had died in the plague six years agoThings had changed after that
It isn't fair, she thought, and in the dream she cried aloud and was not heard
Her mother sat on a wooden chair on the porch in the early light, working on the nets, occasionally looking up to check the position of one small boat among so many bobbing on this alien eastern sea so far from the one she'd loved
Catriana woke, her body twisting violently away from all the hurts embedded in that imageShe opened her eyes, waiting for her heartbeat to slow, lying under several blankets in a room in Castle Borso
Alienor, who was the same age as |
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[Feb. 10th, 2010|10:28 pm] |
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| Russia-U.S. Arms Reduction Deal to Ensure "Balance of Interests" |
[Feb. 5th, 2010|11:34 am] |
"A top priority in the Russia-U.S. nuclear talks is to ensure ""an absolute balance of interests"" in all fields, with neither side gaining an upper hand from any of the terms, a senior Russian lawmaker said Tuesday.
A new Russia-U.S. strategic arms reduction treaty will promote global strategic stability, said Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament.
Kosachev was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying he saw no obstacles to a new nuclear arms reduction treaty, which would further cut nuclear warheads and delivery vehicles in accordance with the outline agreed by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama.
The new treaty's outline agreed to by the two presidents at a July summit in Moscow included slashing nuclear arsenals to 1,500 to 1,675 operational warheads and delivery vehicles to 500 to 1,000.
""We have agreed that delivery vehicles carrying conventional warheads should be considered as strategic weapons, and both sides will place a limit on such arms,"" Kosachev said.
Moscow and Washington have been trying to clinch a new document to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START-1) that expired on Dec. 5.
The START-1, signed in 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States, obliged both sides to reduce the number of their nuclear warheads to 6,000 and delivery vehicles to 1,600.
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