Monday, November 16, 2020

Book Excerpt for the Day


    “It’s not fair, not fair.”


    “Your world is always fair.”  I didn’t make it a question, and she just straightened and looked at me without speaking.  I don’t think she would have or could have answered it anyway.  “There’s no fairness to worlds.  Fairness is a thing created by men.  It doesn’t exist.  It isn’t the same in different cities, or among different people.  How can fairness be the same thing in two different worlds?  In your world you were a scholar, in this one you’re nothing.  In this world I’m a warrior, but if I went to yours, I might be a beggar.”



    (from Warrior of the Altaii by Robert Jordan)

 

    8*/10.  The complete review is here.

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