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Post by Guest Mon Jul 14, 2014 7:04 pm

finally opened The Enchantress of Florence.

Read thru the first para 2 times

In the day's last light the glowing lake below the palace-city looked like a sea of molten gold. A traveler coming this way at sunset — this traveler, coming this way, now, along the lakeshore road — might believe himself to be approaching the throne of a monarch so fabulously wealthy that he could allow a portion of his treasure to be poured into a giant hollow in the earth to dazzle and awe his guests. And as big as the lake of gold was, it must be only a drop drawn from the sea of the larger fortune — the traveler's imagination could not begin to grasp the size of that mother-ocean! Nor were there guards at the golden water's edge; was the king so generous, then, that he allowed all his subjects, and perhaps even strangers and visitors like the traveler himself, without hindrance to draw up liquid bounty from the lake? That would indeed be a prince among men, a veritable Prester John, whose lost kingdom of song and fable contained impossible wonders. Perhaps (the traveler surmised) the fountain of eternal youth lay within the city walls — perhaps even the legendary doorway to Paradise on Earth was somewhere close at hand? But then the sun fell below the horizon, the gold sank beneath the water's surface, and was lost. Mermaids and serpents would guard it until the return of daylight. Until then, water itself would be the only treasure on offer, a gift the thirsty traveler gratefully accepted.

Did the story begin? Am I supposed to know a lot of things before opening the first chapter? Is this how the whole book going to go? As such I am a slow reader, let's see how many weeks it takes me to finish this 349er.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/books/chapters/first-chapter-enchantress.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

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Post by MaxEntropy_Man Mon Jul 14, 2014 7:05 pm

persist, you shall be rewarded. there may be a few obscure references, but skip over them so long as they don't affect your reading of the rest of the story. when they do, some mild googling might help.
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