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25/6/04 14:06"As the Border Magic protects the Secret Country against invasion from without," said Ruth, "so the Nightmare Grass protects High Castle from treachery within the Secret Country. It's planted in all the possible sneaking-up places--"
"Why wasn't there any outside the postern, then?" said Ted.
"There probably was," said Patrick. "You could hardly expect it to work on horses."
"--and it makes you see whatever you're most afraid of."
"I wasn't afraid of it until I did see," said Laura; "what I'm most afraid of is telephones." Perhaps she had seen what Princess Laura was most afraid of. Laura had been afraid of it herself, but she preferred that sort of fear, marrow-chilling though it had been, to the stomach-sinking dread of picking up the telephone and calling to find out when the library closed, or whether Roxanne though it was her mother's turn to take everybody to the Girl Scout meeting.
--from The Secret Country by Pamela Dean
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I finished The Secret Country on Wednesday. I did enjoy it, but I'm not sure exactly what I think about it yet -- I think it'll taking reading the two other books before I can figure that out, as it's definitely not a complete story. Anyway, I'm now currently about two-thirds of the way through Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters.
Hmm, I wonder how much reading I can get done this weekend (freedom! drifting away so quickly!).
People who are making the effort to battle lj long enough to try and leave comments on any of the ds_undercover stories make me feel all happy. Yay for you people.
"Why wasn't there any outside the postern, then?" said Ted.
"There probably was," said Patrick. "You could hardly expect it to work on horses."
"--and it makes you see whatever you're most afraid of."
"I wasn't afraid of it until I did see," said Laura; "what I'm most afraid of is telephones." Perhaps she had seen what Princess Laura was most afraid of. Laura had been afraid of it herself, but she preferred that sort of fear, marrow-chilling though it had been, to the stomach-sinking dread of picking up the telephone and calling to find out when the library closed, or whether Roxanne though it was her mother's turn to take everybody to the Girl Scout meeting.
--from The Secret Country by Pamela Dean
****
I finished The Secret Country on Wednesday. I did enjoy it, but I'm not sure exactly what I think about it yet -- I think it'll taking reading the two other books before I can figure that out, as it's definitely not a complete story. Anyway, I'm now currently about two-thirds of the way through Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters.
Hmm, I wonder how much reading I can get done this weekend (freedom! drifting away so quickly!).
People who are making the effort to battle lj long enough to try and leave comments on any of the ds_undercover stories make me feel all happy. Yay for you people.
