More fandom parallels

[regshoe]

...the tide which for a year had been carrying the Englishman, half ignorant, sometimes resisting, among unlooked-for reefs and breakers, away from the safe, the stagnant Dead Sea of his choice, had borne him to no unfitting anchorage...

—D. K. Broster, The Flight of the Heron

All quests end here, all voyagings, all ventures:
Is not my white breast haven to your sail?

—'The Wave's Song', quoted by D. K. Broster as the epigraph to Book Four of Sir Isumbras at the Ford, although I'm not sure of the original source (any ideas?)

We are drawn together because we are drawn. We are content to abide together just because we are content. We feel that we have reached a certain harbour, after much or little drifting, just because it is for that haven, after all, that we have been moving on and on; with all the irresistible pilotry of the wide ocean-wash friendly to us.

—Edward Prime-Stevenson, Imre: A Memorandum

:)

(hmm, there is also the title of the epilogue to Flight of the Heron, of course...)

Comments

[regshoe]

if she wrote it herself, then that would be delightful, because that was very much Prime-Stevenson's style, and so it would add another parallel to this awesome post! :D

Hee, I was just thinking that quoting herself in the epigraph without saying so is just the sort of thing EPS would do! (I've started reading the stories in Her Enemy, Some Friends..., and I was delighted to see the 'Xavier Mayne' epigraphs from Imre :D )

[theseatheseatheopensea]

It would be so cool to find out that Broster wrote it herself--she could be funny and snarky and troll readers, so it's possible, I guess? I hope we find out one day!

Yay! I hope you are enjoying the stories! I'm really looking forward to your review! :D Our friend Xavier pops up in some of them, as well as in the epigraphs, and so does another sort of pseud... no spoilers, but it's very funny, and another example of trolling the readers! XD