Mountolive

Third of four in the Alexandria Quartet; review of the Quartet forthcoming. In the meantime, another favorite quote:

“Indeed, now the masters were beginning to find that they were, after all, the servants of the very forces which they had set in play, and that nature is inherently ingovernable. They were soon to be drawn along ways not of their choosing, trapped in a magnetic field, as it were, by the same forces which unwind the tides at the moon's bidding, or propel the glittering forces of salmon up a crowded river–actions curving and swelling into futurity beyond the powers of mortals to harness or divert.”