"The Persian Boy" ~ Mary Renault

[kasche]

"All through the speech, I had been watching faces. Not the Persians'; they had been prepared, and were all grave attention. The King's friends, in the secret too, were doubly busy, applauding and watching others; all but Hephaistion, who for most time was watching Alexander, as grave as the Persian, and more attentive still. "

I'm really liking Hephaistion. For all a bunch of details such as this one.

Ok, this is not the only thing I could about him, or Bagoas, or Alexander, but I think it'd be better if I went back to reading.

Bye!

"Yet when we Persians bowed down, they thought nothing of it. Oh, no; we were just displacing our abject natures. It was only blasphemy when done by Macedonians."

Greatgreatgreat.

Please, keep me far from a computer when I'm reading something, lest I spam anywhere with things like that.
If let alone I would be capable of copying down the whole book. Hey, it's not even legal.


[Last (last, last, last, last!) note: Oxathres, you bastard. *grin*]