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I am Jason of Argo.
I feel her keel vibrating in the sea.
The slap of water against her prow.
Our connection is surreal.
My memory of you is undeniable.
You were a light warrior. I was your lover.
Now I find you here.
Strange, wonderful, electrifying.
I know I’m jumping timelines. But what the hell, It’s YOU!
Three thousand years of COSMIC MEMORY.
Eons of time defeated.
Your call is answered.
Jason and Circe together again.
The Mask of Circe by Henry Kuttner book review.
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The Mask of Circe by Henry Kuttner
Book last read: 2024-10-21 16:02:44
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Chapter 3: Enchanted Seas
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Highlight: My mind was sick.
Notes: Lovesick.
Chapter 3: Enchanted Seas
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Highlight: I knew what it was I had done—or had seemed to do—and I knew this was either a dream, or madness.
Notes: Madly in love w you.
Chapter 4: Mystic Ship
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Highlight: I said, “Orpheus—Orpheus?” in an uncertain voice,
Chapter 4: Mystic Ship
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Highlight: Sunlight struck down upon the water and turned it to a dark and dazzling blue. A long row of blinding white breakers dashed themselves high against the marble walls of—an island? A castled island, fortified down to the very brink of the sea, and lifting white towers against a sky as blue as the water. All white and deep dark blue was that scene unveiled before me.
Notes: on the island.
Chapter 4: Mystic Ship
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Highlight: Aeaea, Island of the Enchantress.”
Notes: I see you in my dreams.
Chapter 5: Temple in the Grove
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Highlight: I was alone on the pale sands of Aeaea, which was the Enchantress’ Isle.
Notes: I see you in the sun on pale sand.
Chapter 5: Temple in the Grove
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Highlight: , I followed the calling voice through fog and forest.
Notes: Your call.
Chapter 5: Temple in the Grove
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Highlight: Jason, my lover—enter! Come to me, Jason, my beloved.
Notes: It’s you.
Chapter 5: Temple in the Grove
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Highlight: hair unbound, how it fell in a shining black river over her shoulders as smoothly curved as the alabaster of her face, and each separate hair of it burning the flesh like a blue-hot wire when he brushed it with his hand.
Notes: OMG! It’s YOU!
Chapter 5: Temple in the Grove
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Highlight: Hecate.
Goddess of the dark of the moon,Chapter 5: Temple in the Grove
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Highlight: Kronos watched the sands trickling through his eternal fingers?
Notes: Kronos is time god.
Chapter 5: Temple in the Grove
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Highlight: Man bows always to the thralldom of enchantment, in his superstitious soul. Especially the man of long ago—of now—whose daily life was peopled with the gods and demons of his own
Notes: Indeed.
Chapter 5: Temple in the Grove
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Highlight: There are no fears in any man’s life which cowering can solve.
Notes: Well said.
Chapter 6: Trust Not a Faun
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Highlight: Would you fly in terror from a young dryad, too?
Notes: Nymph in the woods.
Chapter 6: Trust Not a Faun
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Highlight: The truth is that she’ll never rest until she reaches him again through—through me?
Notes: I am here for you.
Chapter 6: Trust Not a Faun
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Highlight: There’s one thing to remember—unless you find the young Circe, you’ll know no peace.
Notes: I found you.
Chapter 7: Priests of Apollo
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Highlight: Helios, burning with beauty, bright as the ardor of the sun-god himself.
Chapter 7: Priests of Apollo
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Highlight: Anger was rising in me, perhaps the beginnings of rebellion,
Notes: Indubitably.
Chapter 7: Priests of Apollo
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Highlight: They want me to run. Well, we’ll see what they do if I won’t run.
Notes: Roman Feds.
Chapter 7: Priests of Apollo
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Highlight: Then a girl’s voice murmured, “Will my lord please to follow me?”
Notes: I will follow you.
Chapter 7: Priests of Apollo
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Highlight: Helot
Notes: Middle class.
Chapter 7: Priests of Apollo
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Highlight: her feet were bare and ankleted with silver bells.
Chapter 7: Priests of Apollo
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Highlight: cosmic stream of time.
Notes: I found you.
Chapter 8: Echoes of the Past
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Highlight: There was a prophecy that when Jason came again, he would be as a sword against Apollo in Hecate’s hand.
Notes: Return of the Sword
Chapter 8: Echoes of the Past
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Highlight: I don’t know who the devil the young Circe is.
Notes: I know her.
Chapter 8: Echoes of the Past
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Highlight: Jason—Jason of Iolcus—beloved, do you hear me?
Notes: I hear you.
Chapter 8: Echoes of the Past
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Highlight: Jason, come back to me,” the sweet, far-away voice was calling through my brain. “Jason, beloved, you must not betray me.”
Notes: I will never betray you.
Chapter 8: Echoes of the Past
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Highlight: radiant with impossible beauty. The eyes were green fire, green embers smoldering beneath the shadow of her lashes. I remembered from long ago.
Notes: I love you.
Chapter 8: Echoes of the Past
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Highlight: But some inexorable bond linked us over the hundreds of generations,
Notes: I found you.
Chapter 8: Echoes of the Past
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Highlight: Could it be possible that the enchantress of three thousand years past had looked through Jason’s eyes as through a lens, and met mine and—No! It sounded incredible to say, “She loved me.
Notes: She loves me!
Chapter 9: Slave-Girl’s Plea
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Highlight: Tell me one thing more,” I said. “Who am I?”
Notes: Good question.
Chapter 9: Slave-Girl’s Plea
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Highlight: This girl knew more than I about too many things.
Chapter 10: Hecate Speaks
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Highlight: I hated that subtle, plausible brain intruding itself upon mine.
Notes: Ego loop.
Chapter 10: Hecate Speaks
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Highlight: And legend told of many times before now when a goddess stooped to bestow her favor on a mortal.
Notes: Please bestow your favor on me.
Chapter 10: Hecate Speaks
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Highlight: Well, I cannot control love. But I wish she might have been born three thousand years from now.
Notes: I found you.
Chapter 11: Radiance of Death
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Highlight: She was strange beyond telling, she was far more than human,
Notes: She is the sun.
Chapter 11: Radiance of Death
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Highlight: The shining light bathed me.
Chapter 11: Radiance of Death
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Highlight: Jason! Waken or die!
Chapter 11: Radiance of Death
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Highlight: I was blinded by the golden light.
Chapter 11: Radiance of Death
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Highlight: Do you know now which side you fight on?
Chapter 11: Radiance of Death
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Highlight: I think, at such a time, a man reaches out blindly for human love.
Chapter 11: Radiance of Death
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Highlight: I no longer walked blind in shadows.
Chapter 12: High Priest’s Bargain
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Highlight: Trust and faith aren’t words to be bandied lightly.
Chapter 12: High Priest’s Bargain
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Highlight: It may be that I am using you and others as well, to shape a world you will never know.
Chapter 12: High Priest’s Bargain
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Highlight: There is a garden where roses of white fire blaze among leaves of flame, dripping droplets of molten sunlight upon a floor of fire. In the center of that garden stands a tree.
Chapter 13: Aid From Hecate
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Highlight: I entered the cypress woods alone.
Chapter 13: Aid From Hecate
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Highlight: There was a hiss of seething water from somewhere nearby, where the oreads of the fountains lashed themselves into a mounting frenzy as the whole sacred isle of the goddess rose in its anger
Chapter 13: Aid From Hecate
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Highlight: I knew she could see me, and perhaps see my mind and thoughts as well.
Chapter 15: Power Unleashed
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Highlight: the darkness still seemed to be deepening over everything.
Chapter 15: Power Unleashed
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Highlight: like serpents in a nightmare.
Chapter 15: Power Unleashed
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Highlight: the potion was—blood.
Chapter 15: Power Unleashed
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Highlight: Slowly it seemed to fall into a drowsy ecstasy of vampirism as its half-reptilian roots sucked up the liquor we spilled from our living bodies.
Chapter 15: Power Unleashed
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Highlight: A shimmering ripple of glory flowed across the Fleece as it shook in my hands, vibrant, alive, incredible.
Chapter 15: Power Unleashed
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Highlight: the flowers at my feet withered and crisped to burned embers as I walked
Chapter 15: Power Unleashed
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Highlight: No man has lived at all, I thought, who has not worn the Fleece!
Chapter 15: Power Unleashed
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Highlight: I think we left peace behind us everywhere,
Chapter 15: Power Unleashed
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Highlight: I stepped across the threshold.
Chapter 15: Power Unleashed
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Highlight: the command of my miraculously augmented will.
Chapter 16: End of a God
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Highlight: Only Circe and I remained
Chapter 16: End of a God
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Highlight: Circe moved to my side, walking smoothly, surely, haloed in green light. I heard her voice, very sweet,
Chapter 16: End of a God
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Highlight: The mightiest science that ever existed, I thought, had gone down into the eternal silence of oblivion.
Notes: Victory!!