Detlef Srieck

Cytaty

• context is the mortar of legend - The Serpent Queen p. 225, ale też później ten sam cytat podaje Gotrek jako stare krasnoludzkie powiedzenie [p. 380]

Tarradash

Cytaty

• Not as much as I find thy stench - Barbenoire, the Bastard of Bretonnia [The Serpent Queen p. 393]

• a patron is a man who watches you drowning for twent minutes and, when you finally manage to drag yourself to the shore by your own efforts, burdens you with help [The Vampire Genevieve p. 121]

• it's a story about a young actor visiting Tarradash himself (...) although I've also heard it about Orfeo (...) A young actor from the country comes to the big city in search of fame and fortune on the stage. He can sing, he can dance, he can juggle, and he was a star in his university players' company. The young blood gains an audition with  tarradash, adn the great man is quite impressed. But not impressed enough to offer a place in his company. "You're good," tarradash says, "you've got a lot of talent, you've got the looks of a leading man, you've got the stregth of an acrobat, and you've the grace of a dancer. You've learned your audition pieces very prettily. But there's one thing you haven't got. You haven't got experience. You're not yet eighteen, and you konw nothing of life. You've not loved, you've not lived. Before you can be a great player, and nou just a talented mannequin, you must go out and live life to the full. Come back to me in six months, and tell me how you've fared." (...) Six months later, he comes back, and he has a new story. "you were so right, master," he tells the great man, "I've been out there in the city, living for myself, experiencing everything. I've met this girl and she's shown me things about myself I coul never have imagined. This has never happened before. We're in love, and everything in my life dances like blossom on a spring breeze."' '"That's perfec," Tarradash says, "now if only she would leave you..."'

• All men and women are beastly, / and when skinned, / a beast in velvet / is a beast for all to see - The Desolate Prisoner of Karak Kadrin [The Vampire Genevieve p. 354]

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