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milliways_bar2007-08-15 03:14 pm
hippodamio) wrote in milliways_bar2007-08-15 03:14 pm
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Hektor found, yesterday, that when he looked up from his book the door was no longer there. That was well; it meant that the goddess was looking after things. It had happened to him once before, and that when he was reading the book of the horse-tamer. There are no books in Troy, not in any language used by men. The goddess, it seems, does not wish Hektor to bring any back with him; if he is to make use of them, he must do what he would do with a teacher or bard, and learn it all off by heart. That seems fair.
He spent last night in a room upstairs not so different from his own, and he has been outside after, but now he is indoors once more and struggling his slow, painful way through more reading than he has ever done in his life. Knowing a thing must be committed to memory, and actually doing so, are very different things; he would welcome a distraction.
He spent last night in a room upstairs not so different from his own, and he has been outside after, but now he is indoors once more and struggling his slow, painful way through more reading than he has ever done in his life. Knowing a thing must be committed to memory, and actually doing so, are very different things; he would welcome a distraction.