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Category: Bryn Hammond

He only knows a single thing to clasp, that like God can’t be split up into pieces: our honesty to one another.

Perceptions? Yesugei didn’t give a goat’s toenail about perceptions, but society was society. …’Who gives a billy’s balls what one or two wives have to say?”Quite, father.’ This was strong language, to cite the nether parts, stronger than toenails.

goats, gossip, language

Such coincidences were the rhymes that God wrote into fate, his chords of music.

coincidence, fate, god

Tchingis, if you determine this is to be so, who can withstand you? You are poetry after an ugly day, and heal wounds I didn’t know I had.

healing, leadership, poetry

In the rare air of that altitude he forgot he was he. One way or another that was the aim of life. Shamans flew outside the self in ecstasy. Other people found love, or causes.

self, transcendence

The animals haven’t split apart into what they think and what they feel. They are whole and trust in their instincts.

animals, emotions, thoughts

Temujin nodded. He had every intention to do his bit in the battle, like his mother.

mothers, steppe, women

And I saw you and I thought, she’d be a cosy fit inside my arm.

attraction, cosy

For a few heady weeks of the year the steppe in a binge throws out a wilderness of flowers that tangle your hooves and confuse your horse.

flowers, horses, springtime, steppe

Besides, they cast an eye to the past, they didn’t disgrace the ground they trod and they believed in the future again. That’s what a victory does for you.

Temujin watched Borte’s ballet, her elegance on the fulcrum of her hips.

dance, elegance, hips, love

The glue between the horn that pushes and the sinew that pulls. The glue gets ignored, but you know, Ahai, up to half of a bow is glue. I suspect Ogodoi is the son I can least afford to lose.

friends, glue, the-glue-that-keeps-us-together