Godric

There's not a man alive roday but time, like Wear, will carry him off too."

I said, "It sounds a sad song then."

"What? Are you daft!" she said. "Can't you hear him chuckle while he sings? And well he may. Who wants a life that never ends? Not me, that's sure. Who wants a sun that never shuts his eye? Death's like the night we need to rest our bones."

"That we may wake refreshed in Paradise," I said.

She said, "Or never wake at all. Who knows? I only know that life's like porridge. It's good to eat when eating's what you want, but the time comes when you've had your fill."

Quoted on November 14, 2025

Three lessons Godric learned that day.

The first was that the sea's a killer, nor did he ever from that day forget nor fail again to keep an eye cocked on the waves' salt treachery.

Quoted on November 11, 2025

Perhaps, since nothing human's not a broth of false and true, it was the two at once.

Quoted on November 11, 2025

Why did we weep? I asked myself. We wept for all that grandeur gone. We wept for martyrs cruelly slain. We wept for Christ, who suffered death upon a tree and suffers still to see our suffering. But more than anything, I think, we wept for us, and so it ever is with tears. Whatever be their outward cause, within the chancel of the heart it's we ourselves for whom they finally fall.

Quoted on November 11, 2025

[Banger of a first line:]
Five friends I had, and two of them snakes.

Quoted on October 23, 2025