I think that WOOOSH! would be the sound of us talking completely past each other.
Guess it's time to play "putting the quote in context"!
Firstly, neither the quote, nor I, were referring to literal real world thieves, in the "taking stuff that's not yours" sense. For one, as Fors would say, "Any idiot can do that". For two, Thieves and Kings, as well as the Fors stuff, is fantasy, with a good bit of myth and fairy tales. Thief in this sense is an archetype, and one of the main things about the thief archetype is it's somebody who's outside the system. So this isn't in any way literal, it's story and myth and metaphor.
And, to put the quote further in context, the quotes come from a flashback Rubel (the thief side of Thieves and Kings) is remembering, about what he was told when he was a child, by a Royal Guard, after saying he wanted to be a thief. I can put the whole long speechy thing up in the main part, and maybe I should.
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Date: 2004-08-02 03:48 pm (UTC)Guess it's time to play "putting the quote in context"!
Firstly, neither the quote, nor I, were referring to literal real world thieves, in the "taking stuff that's not yours" sense. For one, as Fors would say, "Any idiot can do that". For two, Thieves and Kings, as well as the Fors stuff, is fantasy, with a good bit of myth and fairy tales. Thief in this sense is an archetype, and one of the main things about the thief archetype is it's somebody who's outside the system. So this isn't in any way literal, it's story and myth and metaphor.
And, to put the quote further in context, the quotes come from a flashback Rubel (the thief side of Thieves and Kings) is remembering, about what he was told when he was a child, by a Royal Guard, after saying he wanted to be a thief. I can put the whole long speechy thing up in the main part, and maybe I should.