[Aside] "O heavens!...
I find myself disappointed in Sir Brennan of the Ruby Knights, a master of the fields of the dark realm.
Wet Dreams
The gate before us was as black as the sky.
Top Ten Rejects
Top Ten Rejected Zero-Point Powers for Marius... 10. The power of...an audible personal soundtrack. (There's an episode of "Family Guy" that describes some of the drawbacks to this.) 9. Calling the winds. (The jokes about "breaking wind," and "Marius: also...
Tongue In Cheek
Hmmm. I need a new to-do list...
The instruments of darkness tell us truths...
Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's In deepest consequence. Cousins, a word, I pray you. [Macbeth] Ossian What Marius Would Say Aloud: Though more Brand's son than Brennan lays claim, I am hard pressed to imagine Ossian his...
The Valet of Hafaza
Marius' Valet, Coutherie Hafaza.
The Dream of Dara's Dance
Just a dream.
Quote for Marius
What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
--Joseph Campbell
O worthiest cousin!
The sin of my ingratitude even now Was heavy on me... [Macbeth] Brennan What Marius Would Say Aloud: He is quick to serve, and claim allegiance to a new order. That same service has been both valiant and wise,...
Not Mine Own Fears
Heck, an in-character dream should never be wasted.
Nay, 'tis most credible; we here received it...
A certainty, vouch'd from our cousin... [All's Well That Ends Well] Aisling What Marius Would Say Aloud: A hint of enigma makes for intrigue, and that is Aisling in a nutshell. Could one crack that shell and find the...
Marius' Room
Some observations of Marius that can be made from his room, and in talks with the LintKing.
Marius and the Mermaid
"...shared with a creature intent on devouring me from toe to soul."
Just Silly Enough
Marius's Battle Cry:...
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire
Marius dreams about Paige, cards, and paradise.
I Scorn to Change my State with Kings
I dreamt again. I was riding with Brennan and Jovian (who were keeping a lively discussion about Canareth's disgust that Jovian might choose a horse to bear him for this trip down the coast.) We were on a mission...
Hath it slept since?
And wakes it now, to look so green and pale... [MacBeth] ...And so we reaped what was sown in anger and the pursuit of some pale facsimile of glory on that field of death. Whatever words, whatever it was that...
Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand...
Lilly: She is the type to test the road before placing her foot upon it.
Canid
Marius, Doggy-style.
Bear with me cousin, for I was amazed
Under the tide: but now I breathe again Aloft the flood, and can give audience To any tongue, speak it of what it will. [King John] Jovian What Marius Would Say Aloud: A nice, neat man, even in keel...
Alas, that love, so gentle in his view...
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! [Romeo and Juliet] Paige. Should I guess her heritage? And yet she sits, quivering lip and sorrowful brow, as if to bring comfort to a stranger. We share earth in our homeland,...
"What is the end of study? let me know.
Why, that to know, which else we should not know. Things hid and barr'd, you mean, from common sense? Aye, that is study's godlike recompense." [Love's Labours Lost] Vialle What Marius Would Say Aloud: "She is my Queen, and I...
"O gentle son,
Marius briefly discusses his learning of the Trumps.
"It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul
There was nothing he could remember between the shouting and the screaming.
"Be thus when thou art dead...
"...the tapestry is tangled such that no one can see it from the distance of the living or sane..."
"And thus I clothe my naked villany..."
"...With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil." King Richard III The dreams continue to haunt me. I dreamt that it was revealed, 'twas a demon who fathered me....
"And since you know you cannot see yourself...
"Whose doom is whose?" I wondered aloud, before awaking.
"And here I prophesy: this brawl to-day,
Secrets are planted in the Garden. Secrets can grow, but with proper tending they do not become choked with the weeds of deceit.
"'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss"
"Brand wanted you to have this," I said, and I gave the knife to Martin.