Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site nmtvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!linus!philabs!cmcl2!lanl!unm-la!unmvax!nmtvax!shipman From: shipman@nmtvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Learning to love again--a comment from Evangeline Walton Message-ID: <851@nmtvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 09:31:50 EST Article-I.D.: nmtvax.851 Posted: Mon Nov 4 09:31:50 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 02:56:11 EST Distribution: na Organization: Zoological Data Processing Lines: 28 Sex: male Age: 36 Weight: 19 stone Marital-Status: single, but little patience for playing games Religion: Taoist-Pantheist-Presbyterian Hobbies: birds, astronomy Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue Summary: 82% header lines, 10% signature, 8% pithy philosophy In article <1079@trwrdc.UUCP> frith@trwrdc.UUCP (Lord Frith) writes: >What I missed is that one unique irreplaceable relationship...which >may never be repeated in its intensity and may never be repeated at all. This is from Evangeline Walton's modern retelling of the Mabinogion, a cycle of ancient Welsh legends. The speaker, Rhiannon of the Birds (the same one Stevie Nicks wrote a song about), is trying to explain to her new husband, Manawyddan, how she could love again after her earth-shaking relationship with Pwyll. (emphasis mine) *--------------------------------------------------------------------* | For long I feared time, Lord, I who knew that it must take away my | | lover's strength and my beauty. But after Pwyll died I learned to | | bless it because now it had done its worst and could only bring me | | nearer to him. But when I had blessed it my vision changed, and I | | saw that, great as was my love and Pwyll's, I must not make a | | prison of its memory, a walled place, shutting others out. For | | every walled place is truly a small place, cramping the body and | | the spirit. AND EVERY MAN AND WOMAN IS WORTHY OF LOVE, AND EACH | | CALLS FORTH A LOVE THAT CAN BE GIVEN ONLY TO HIMSELF OR HERSELF, | | NEVER TO ANOTHER. And I remembered you, and knew that I loved | | you, and that by loving you I need not cease to love Pwyll. It is | | hard to make it clear, that lesson. | | "The Song of Rhiannon", Evangeline Walton, p. 82 | *--------------------------------------------------------------------* -- John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/ucbvax!unmvax!nmtvax!shipman