Dragaera

Tedious lapse

Sat Aug 16 13:50:38 PDT 2003

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 03:21:12PM -0500, "Rachel L. Ruhlen" <melalvai at kemenel.org> wrote:
> This reminds of a story or movie I read or saw. I only remember it vaguely.
> Maybe someone else would recognize it? The main character made a foolish vow
> at some point not to die until he had made good for a mistake he made that
> had resulted in the death of his beloved, and ended up tracking her soul
> every time she died, and hadn't yet succeeded in rectifying his error. Orson
> Scott Card, maybe?

Various of the Deverry books, by Katherine Kerr, have a karmic 
knot of this type.  More would be a spoiler.  

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