Monolith for Maggie, continued from yesterday
"The young woman counted—
'Otu, abua, ato, ano, ise, isii, asaa'—
using what remained to her of
the secret language…."
— Opening sentence of the prologue to The Choir Boats,
a 2009 novel by Daniel A. Rabuzzi
The piano link in today's previous post suggests a review
of a post from Feb. 11, 2008. That post suggests in turn
a passage from the Trevanian classic The Eiger Sanction
that says, in part…
"Often it was unnecessary to finish a sentence…."