Re: Reading the Belgariad Again

Gwydion wrote:

> Recently, a script from Ce` arrived, in which they said:
>
> : I don't think I'd be able to read the scene with Ce'Nedra throwing
> : coins into the grass without fuming and wanting to go compare it to
the
> : scene in Althalus to see if they *are* actually word for word.
>
> Since the scene is purloined wholesale from one or both of twelfth
> century French love-poetry and/or an incident during the Roman civil
> war which ended the Republic and began the reign of Julius Caeser,
> it wouldn't surprise me if they're pretty close.

Thank you - that explains it. And I've learned something new for the
day ;)

Ce`