{"id":42699,"date":"2024-11-21T06:30:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T17:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42699"},"modified":"2024-11-17T17:56:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T04:56:27","slug":"on-crows-reprised-in-the-wall-of-night-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2024\/11\/21\/on-crows-reprised-in-the-wall-of-night-series\/","title":{"rendered":"On Crows Reprised — in “The Wall Of Night” Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

So-o, on Monday<\/strong> I featured an Alice Hoffman<\/a> quote on crows, which I like very much — as well as quoting from the poem A Murder of Crows<\/em> by that maestro of the mot juste, Joanna Preston<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today, I’m rounding out my crow theme with some excerpts from The Wall Of Nigh<\/a>t series, which I believe “speak” to why the Alice Hoffman quote appeals.<\/p>\n

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“The fog in front of him lifted slowly and drifted apart, revealing the tall figure of a man.\u00a0 His back was turned to Kalan and a long black cloak fell almost to his booted heels; his right hand grasped a tall, hooded spear and a crow perched on his left shoulder.\u00a0 The bird’s head turned, snaring Kalan’s gaze with one bright eye, then it lifted its wings and cawed, the harsh cry echoing through trees and mist. …”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~ from \u00a9\u00a0The Heir Of Night<\/em>: The Wall of Night Book One, Chapter 19 \u2014 The Huntmaster<\/p>\n

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Malian’s dream was darkness: blackness without stars, water without light, a tower without a shadow that she remembered climbing\u2014but that too fell away as she plummeted, diving head first through the dream. She kept her eyes open, remembering the crow in the shadow tower, the one that had told her this was something she would need to learn how to do. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~ from \u00a9\u00a0The Gathering of the Lost<\/em>,\u00a0The Wall Of Night<\/strong> Book Two \u2013 Prologue<\/p>\n

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“Malian had sold her cob in the nearest market town and abandoned the identity of Heris the scribe for that of Crow, Raven\u2019s companion hedge warrior … two itinerant swords-for-hire, of indeterminate origin but sporting cloth head-wrappings and the bone-and-feather fetishes favored by Lathayran mercenaries. She had even woven the hair on either side of her face into the narrow braids favored in Lathayra, working in crow\u2019s feathers pulled from a hedge outside Stoneford to give color to her mercenary\u2019s name. …<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Birds of ill omen, she thought wryly, recalling how both innkeepers and caravan masters had eyed them askance … “<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~ from \u00a9\u00a0Daughter of Blood<\/em>,\u00a0The Wall Of Night<\/strong> Book Three \u2013 Chapter 14, Crow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So-o, on Monday I featured an Alice Hoffman quote on crows, which I like very much — as well as quoting from the poem A Murder of Crows by that maestro of the mot juste, Joanna Preston. Today, I’m rounding out my crow theme with some excerpts from The Wall Of Night series, which I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42699"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42704,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42699\/revisions\/42704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}