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queensthiefI've been rereading pretty slowly to savor everything and came across this connection.
It's after Costis falls into the well and Kamet runs away, before he gets to the city.
"Nothing about my plans had changed, but I stood for a long time staring down the empty road, my arms hanging useless at my sides, waiting, as if he would appear, as if the world would settle back into its proper course, like the wine in a tilting cup saved just before it tipped too far. But the cup was overturned, the wine spilled. My master was dead. Now the Attolian was dead as well."
And it struck me how similar this was to that scene in QoA when Helen and Irene come into the room where Eugenides was being kept in Ephrata. The imagery with the overturned wine cup when Irene thinks Gen is dead, and now when Kamet thinks Costis is dead. It reminds me of the broken amphora, too, showing such desolation and regret.
Man, it's stuff like this that sort of explains why the books take so daggone long to write.
It's after Costis falls into the well and Kamet runs away, before he gets to the city.
"Nothing about my plans had changed, but I stood for a long time staring down the empty road, my arms hanging useless at my sides, waiting, as if he would appear, as if the world would settle back into its proper course, like the wine in a tilting cup saved just before it tipped too far. But the cup was overturned, the wine spilled. My master was dead. Now the Attolian was dead as well."
And it struck me how similar this was to that scene in QoA when Helen and Irene come into the room where Eugenides was being kept in Ephrata. The imagery with the overturned wine cup when Irene thinks Gen is dead, and now when Kamet thinks Costis is dead. It reminds me of the broken amphora, too, showing such desolation and regret.
Man, it's stuff like this that sort of explains why the books take so daggone long to write.
