Eric Rücker Eddison

Name: The Worm Ouroboros — X. The Marchlands of the Moruna
Author: Eric Rücker Eddison

The Worm Ouroboros — X. The Marchlands of the Moruna (1922)

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“The Worm Ouroboros — X. The Marchlands of the Moruna”, published in 1922, is a work by Eric Rücker Eddison. It explores elements such as Brandoch Daha, Juss and Mivarsh.

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Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros — X. The Marchlands of the Moruna (1922)

“ At her entering in, the sparrow-hawk clicked its wings as in anger, and without more ado tucked its beak beneath its wing and went to sleep. But that bright lady, looking on the Lord Brandoch Daha, spake and said, "Require it of me, my Lord Brandoch Daha, that which thou most desirest of earthly things."
But he, as one bedazzled, stood up saying, "O lady, is not thy beauty at the dawn of day an irradiation that might dispel the mists of hell? My heart is ravished with thy loveliness and only fed with thy sight. Therefore thy body will I have, and none other thing earthly." ”

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Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros — X. The Marchlands of the Moruna (1922)

“ We must not be of those who go forth for wool and come home shorn."
Brandoch Daha and Spitfire mocked at this, and cast lots between themselves. And the lot fell upon Lord Brandoch Daha. "Thou shalt not deny me this," said he to Lord Juss, "else will I never more do thee good."
I never could yet deny thee anything," answered Juss. "Art not thou and I finger and thumb? Only forget not, whatsoe'er betide, wherefore we be come hither."
"Art not thou and I finger and thumb?" said Brandoch Daha. "Fear nothing, O friend of my heart. ”

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Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros — X. The Marchlands of the Moruna (1922)

“ The teeth of Mivarsh Faz chattered, but right glad were the Demons as they won up the rocks and entered at last into that deserted burg. Without, the night was still; but fires were burning in the desert eastward, and others as they watched were kindled in the west, and soon was the circle joined of twinkling points of red round about Eshgrar Ogo and the lakes.
Juss said, "By an hour have we forestalled them. And behold how he ringeth us about as men ring a scorpion in flame." ”

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Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros — X. The Marchlands of the Moruna (1922)

“ So he asked them where their journey lay, and they answered, "East."
"Eastward," said Mivarsh, "all ways lead to the Moruna. None may go thither and not die."
But they laughed and answered him, "Do not too narrowly define our power, sweet Mivarsh, restraining it to thy capacities. Know that our journey is a matter determined of, and it is fixed with nails of diamond to the wall of inevitable necessity." ”

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Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros — X. The Marchlands of the Moruna (1922)

“ Thou shalt have war and not peace. He that thou worst hatest shall throw down and ruin thy fair lordship, Krothering Castle and the mains thereof. And though vengeance shall overtake him at the last, by another's hand than thine shall it come, and to thine hand shall it be denied." ⁠p. 168 Therewith she fell a-weeping. And the Lord Brandoch Daha, with great resolution, went forth from the chamber. And looking back from the threshold he beheld both that and the outer chamber void of lady and sparrow-hawk both. ”

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Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros — X. The Marchlands of the Moruna (1922)

“ But know that I keep a sparrow-hawk sitting on a perch in the eastern tower, and he that will wake my sparrow-hawk this night long, alone without any company and without sleep, I shall come to him at the night's end and shall grant unto him the first thing that he will ask me of earthly things." So saying she departed like a dream.
Brandoch Daha said, "Cast we lots for this adventure."
But Juss spake against it, saying, "There's likely some guile herein. We must not in this accursed land suffer aught to seduce our minds, but follow our set purpose. ”

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Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros — X. The Marchlands of the Moruna (1922)

“ Swift as a snake she turned, clinging fiercely about him, pressing fiercely again to his her insatiable sweet fervent lips, crying that here must he dwell unto eternity in the intoxication of perfect love and pleasure. ”

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Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros — X. The Marchlands of the Moruna (1922)

“ I see thou art one who will be denied nothing, on whatsoever thine heart is set. Come." And they passed by a heavy-curtained doorway ⁠p. 167 into an inner chamber, where the air was filled with the breath of myrrh and nard and ambergris, a fragrancy as of sleeping loveliness. ”

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