Eight skilled gentlemen by Barry Hughart

Author:Barry Hughart
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Fiction - Fantasy, General, Fantasy, China, Fantastic fiction, Historical, Fantasy - Historical, Fiction
ISBN: 9780385417105
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 1991.
Published: 1991-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

The cavalier has been blinded by his envy of immortality, and when nature shudders in horror he sees a dance of delight. He has been deafened, and when the chiao-ming bird screeches its warning he hears paeans of joy. He has been maddened, and would take his whip to any mere star that might stand in his path as he calls to the dragons to race faster.

Alone on the peak of her kingdom

Stands the Lady of Lakes and Mountains.

Billowing clouds kneel before her,

Gray and lowering,

Smothering silver moonbeams

While the Lady summons thunder

To rumble a path for her feet.

Tiger eyes lift to a streak in the sky;

Tiger teeth bare, tiger claws scrape,

Tiger screams reach out to jade dragons

Bucking in traces, leaping and rearing,

Tiger laughter greets a small figure

Turning over and over, through starlight and moonbeams,

Falling through sky to the mud of the earth.

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