So true

“I have profound admiration for myself. Is this ‘vanity’? The point is debatable.”

— Twisk the Fairy,
Lyonesse III: Madouc, by Jack Vance, page 635.

So true was published on December 10. 2007 and filed in Literature, Opinions, Pride, Query, Quote of the day.

8 Responses

Amras Elensar

I presume that Twisk is an actual fairy with wings and all, and not the modern interpretation of the word?

11. December 2007 @ 19:42 ( Permalink )
Loki

He could be both?

11. December 2007 @ 20:12 ( Permalink )
Amras Elensar

That would be awesome ^^

12. December 2007 @ 13:05 ( Permalink )
Loki

Twisk, the creature of an inescapably punny existance.

12. December 2007 @ 16:52 ( Permalink )
Dread Pirate Terje

It’s a female, of the old, traditional variety. Think Elves before Tolkien got his damn romanticizing hands on them. You know, unpredictable, petty, playful, self-obsessed, and so on.

13. December 2007 @ 14:33 ( Permalink )
Amras Elensar

I’m pretending that Twisk is what Loki said, no matter how many lies you dish out

13. December 2007 @ 19:07 ( Permalink )
Loki

I’m finding the sentence “IT’s a FEMALE” to contain certain self-contradictions which would seem to back up Lotta’s claim regarding the truthfulness of your statements.

13. December 2007 @ 19:54 ( Permalink )
Dread Pirate Terje

I try to reserve the terms “he” and “she” for human beings. Thus, a fairy, and elf, becomes an “it”, with the added adjective “male” or “female” if I desire to ascribe a sex to it.

(At least this is what I do when it is inconvenient for me to do otherwise.)

14. December 2007 @ 00:05 ( Permalink )