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I just finished re-reading Terry Pratchett's "Guards! Guards!" -- if you're not familiar with The Diskworld, this book makes a very good introduction to it.
Within the story is a book, entitled, "How to Summon Dragons." One snippet of that book is included as part of the story (slightly spell-checked version below):
"Yet Dragons are not like unicorns, I willen. They dwelleth in some Realm defined by the Fancy of the Will and, thus, it might be that whomsoever calleth upon them, and giveth them their pathway unto this world, calleth their own Dragon of the Mind.
Yet, I trow, the Pure in Heart may still call a Dragon of Power as a Force for Good in the world, and this ane night the Great Work will commence. All hate been prepared. I hath labored most mightily to be a Worthy Vessel…
A realm of fancy, he thought. That’s where they went, then. Into our imaginations. And when we call them back we shape them, like squeezing dough into pastry shapes. Only you don’t get gingerbread men, you get what you are. Your own darkness, given shape…"
Be careful what you ask for....
Within the story is a book, entitled, "How to Summon Dragons." One snippet of that book is included as part of the story (slightly spell-checked version below):
"Yet Dragons are not like unicorns, I willen. They dwelleth in some Realm defined by the Fancy of the Will and, thus, it might be that whomsoever calleth upon them, and giveth them their pathway unto this world, calleth their own Dragon of the Mind.
Yet, I trow, the Pure in Heart may still call a Dragon of Power as a Force for Good in the world, and this ane night the Great Work will commence. All hate been prepared. I hath labored most mightily to be a Worthy Vessel…
A realm of fancy, he thought. That’s where they went, then. Into our imaginations. And when we call them back we shape them, like squeezing dough into pastry shapes. Only you don’t get gingerbread men, you get what you are. Your own darkness, given shape…"
Be careful what you ask for....
