Source: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Dying Earth (1950), Chapter 6, "Guyal of Sfere"
“Now the sun touched the horizon and the man reined in his horse tiredly, glad that the time for prayer had come.”
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James Clavell
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Whirlwind
Whirlwind (1986)
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Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 1009–1010 (tr. Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
“It is dreams that have destroyed us. There is no more pride
in horses or in rein holding.”
"Libertad! Igualidad! Fraternidad!"
Al Que Quiere! (1917)
Context: Brother!
— if we were rich
we'd stick our chests out
and hold our heads high! It is dreams that have destroyed us. There is no more pride
in horses or in rein holding. We sit hunched together brooding
our fate. Well —
all things turn bitter in the end
whether you choose the right or
the left way
and —
dreams are not a bad thing.
“He wasn’t a man who reined in his curiosity well.”
Daniel Abraham
(1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 47 (p. 476)
“When Man comes at me
do I rein in the stallion,
or let him meet the hooves?”
John Carder Bush
(1944) British artist; brother of Kate Bush
Control: A translation (1974)
Variant: When God comes at me
do I bow the stallion's legs
or meet him with flared nostrils?
Robert G. Ingersoll
(1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Paraphrased variant: I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
At A Child's Grave (1882)
Context: No man, standing where the horizon of a life has touched a grave, has any right to prophesy a future filled with pain and tears. It may be that death gives all there is of worth to life. If those we press and strain against our hearts could never die, perhaps that love would wither from the earth. Maybe this common fate treads from out the paths between our hearts the weeds of selfishness and hate, and I had rather live and love where death is king, than have eternal life where love is not.