ged and amy

'But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on the act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and of Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow...'

A Wizard of Earthsea feels like a tale that has been told for centuries.

Spun a thousands times round a glaring fire by 'wise' old men, drunk on nostalgia and grandpa's backwater moonshine.
Not something penned in the late 60s.

I don't know how LeGuin does this, perhaps with a little magic of her own.
Whatever way, she does it with a great sea of majesty and not a drop of insincerity.
I think i'm going to love her.

So, from a book that felt like a mystical hug to one that's driving me insane.

I had to stop myself from hurling it across my bedroom last night it made me so mad.

I settled on vigorously flipping it the bird instead.

The characters are so petty and ugly and...human.

How dare they be so recognisably fallible.

If i'm going to inflict the painful breakdown of a marriage upon myself, then i'm gonna need some fantasy crap to go with it.

Maybe a dragon here, a manticore there.

A spell gone awry.

Even just some casual vampirism will do.

I have more than enough of my own crap to deal with in reality.

I do not want to have to wade through and make sense of anybody else's, let alone anybody fictional! 

Saying all that.

I cannot put this bloody thing down.

I blame my sister.

...

There will be vengeance.