Post by marvis on Jul 3, 2005 12:15:50 GMT -5
Incredibly, perhaps, the values, wealth and power, which had driven me in the forest, when I had sought Talena, no longer seemed of much interest to me. The sky now seemed more important to me, and the sea, and the ship beneath my feet. No longer did I dream of becoming an Ubar. In the north I found I had changed. What had driven me in the forest now seemed paltry, irrelevant to the true needs, the concerns, of man. I had been blinded by the values of civilization. Everything I had been taught had been false. I had suspected this when I had stood on the heights of Torvaldsberg, on a windswept rock, looking upon the lands beneath, white and bleak, and beautiful. Even the Kurri, on its height, stunned, had stopped to gaze. I had learned much in the north.