{"id":2966,"date":"2023-05-31T10:33:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T16:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2023-05-31T16:30:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T22:30:33","slug":"lost-is-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2966","title":{"rendered":"Lost Is Found"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the last workday of the work on my office, I found a large 3 ring binder, blue in color, that proved to contain much (not all) that I’d thought permanently lost of the background material for Paks.\u00a0 Including the story of the shepherd who tried to rob Dort the Master Shepherd of some strands of wool from Dort’s sheep, who all have golden fleeces.\u00a0 That story will come out later.\u00a0\u00a0 There are two versions of Torre’s tale, and two of Falk,\u00a0 and more verses to the songs mentioned and sometimes partly quoted in the books, and so on. A story about the great bardic festival and the division for “martial music” performed by mercenaries.\u00a0 About the way the Mother of Unicorns regained her sight after her eyes were stolen, about a young yeoman marshal’s mistakes and the justice of Gird<\/p>\n

Why had I not found it years ago, before the Great Mess reached its height?\u00a0 Well…memory was that those things had been put in a BLACK 3-ring binder.\u00a0 And this one was BLUE.\u00a0 So apparently, I didn’t look at the blue binder when searching for those lost things.\u00a0 Only at the black binders.\u00a0 One black binder did contain good stuff…printouts of my earliest-published stories, as submitted, from “Bargains” through to “Gut Feelings”.\u00a0 Might be time to consider a collection of the early SF stories.<\/p>\n

The study as it looks now, about 99% of the reorganization is finished.<\/p>\n

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But in the meantime and right now, a present for you:<\/p>\n

Fair Were the Towers (C) 1985
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Fair were the towers whose stones lie scattered,<\/p>\n

White in the sun those ramparts rose.<\/p>\n

Sweet were the flowers that twined in the gardens,<\/p>\n

Then came the storms to them.<\/p>\n

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Fair were the princes whose bones lie scattered,<\/p>\n

White in the sun their helmets gleamed.<\/p>\n

Sweet were the ladies who bloomed for their pleasure,<\/p>\n

Then came the wars to them.<\/p>\n

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Mikeli Vanyn the fair-spoken singer,<\/p>\n

Bright harper of dances, will dance no more<\/p>\n

Kevye the swordsman and Argalt his brother<\/p>\n

Gannis and Torhal have died in the war.<\/p>\n

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Princes of Aare, their bones are all scattered,<\/p>\n

The towers have fallen that called to the sky.<\/p>\n

The Sandlord has taken them, Liart\u2019s bane gnawed them,<\/p>\n

All the fair gardens are withered and dry.<\/p>\n

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From notes:\u00a0 This is the original version, said to be sung after the destruction of Old Aare by a singer called “The Black Harper”.\u00a0 It became a favorite funeral song, with changes in the words as necessary: commonly the insertion of the names of the dead instead of the Aarean princes’ names, and a different final quartet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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