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Loading... Satyrday (edition 1982)by Steven Bauer
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Far too slow, couldn't finish it. Title's the best part. ( ) This is a novel by an eminent poet, and it reads like it: the prose is simply delicious, a pure pleasure merely to read aloud to oneself. The tale itself is a curious mix of the deeply mythic and the mundane modern. A child can read it as a simple adventure story, but for an adult there are--besides the glorious language--resonances of all sorts, A few samples: "Young one," she said. "Are you sick?" "I don't think so," he said. "Do I look sick?" "You certainly do," the crone said. "What's the matter?" "All I feel is sad," Condor said. "It's like I have something growing inside me that wants to get out but can't." "Indigestion," the crone said. "You're not chewing your food properly." Condor shot her a disappointed glance. "I don't think this is something for you to joke about." You had his wings broken." "I admit it," the owl said. "The other animals might have learned from his example. My power is absolute, but illusory, much like your light. I assume those I rule won't understand my power is something which can be taken away from me." "I hadn't known your penchant for the philosophical," the moon said. "But all the philosophy you could command can't change the fact of Maxwell's death." "He was only one raven," the owl said. "Yes," the moon said. "He was that." "I followed you last night after you saved my life . . . ." "Do me the favor of eschewing the melodrama," she said . . . . Wise-cracking, philisophy and pain, and eloquence. Sounds like a good start, yes? (More at http://greatsfandf.com/AUTHORS/StevenBauer.php) no reviews | add a review
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