In any other context, yes, Bahorel would take it as a religious metaphor, and orate on the point or not.
Right now-- right now, he only blinks, and then starts laughing. "And what would we all be, here, then? We are dead, we are all fully gone; our novelist has dispensed with us. Does he keep a daily notebook of our adventures in this little inn?" He shakes his head.
"You may choose to believe yourself a fiction if it brings you comfort, L'aigle; you would not be the first I have known to do so. For myself, I will have no patience with an author who allows such a sloppy and unfinished sequel; and if I am a fictional character, why, I reclaim myself; the author may do as he likes, I reject that paternity, I shall not answer to him; and so it ends up the same in either case."
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Date: 2014-12-17 05:43 pm (UTC)Right now-- right now, he only blinks, and then starts laughing. "And what would we all be, here, then? We are dead, we are all fully gone; our novelist has dispensed with us. Does he keep a daily notebook of our adventures in this little inn?" He shakes his head.
"You may choose to believe yourself a fiction if it brings you comfort, L'aigle; you would not be the first I have known to do so. For myself, I will have no patience with an author who allows such a sloppy and unfinished sequel; and if I am a fictional character, why, I reclaim myself; the author may do as he likes, I reject that paternity, I shall not answer to him; and so it ends up the same in either case."