“We
have beauty, too. We call it ‘scenery.’”
“’Scenery,’” Mhoram echoed. “The
word is strange to me – but I do not like the sound.”
Covenant
felt oddly shaken, as if he had just looked over his shoulder and found himself
standing too close to a precipice. “It
means that beauty is something extra,” he rasped. “It’s nice, but we can live without it.”
“Without?” Mhoram’s gaze
glittered dangerously.
And behind him Foamfollower breathed in astonishment. “Live without beauty? Ah, my friend! How do you resist despair?”
“I
don’t think we do,” Covenant muttered. “Some
of us are just stubborn.”
(from Lord Foul’s
Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson)
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