Deep Wizardry

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I was just wondering how many people just loved the Song of the Twelve in "Deep Wizardry". It seems to me that it is my favorite book because of that. I read all of them over, however, I flip through Deep Wizardry to read the poetry more than often.


"Must I accept the barren Gift?
-learn death, and lose my Mastery?
Then let them know whose blood and breath
will take the Gift and set them free:
whose is the voice and whose the mind
to set at naught the well-sung Game-
when finned Finality arrives
and calls me by my secret Name.

Not old enough to love as yet,
but old enough to die, indeed-
-the death-fear bites my throat and heart,
fanged cousin to the Pale One's breed.
But past the fear lies life for all-
perhaps for me: and, past my dread,
past lost of Mastery and life,
the Sea shall yet give up Her dead!"

-Deep Wizard, pages 278-279, written by Diane Duane

Am I the only one who finds that enchantingly beautiful, or am I really just a hopeless geek?

I have one more question to ask. Does anyone have any recommendation for Diane Duane books that are neither Young Wizard (counting the kitty-cat ones) or Star Trek novels? Thanks.