Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
What Maeve Told Fergus
Maeve, Queen of Connaught, was talking one day with Fergus mac Roi, that was foster-brother to Cuchulain.
(And were not those two, as Cathbad the druid said, like the two halves of a hazelnut?)
"There's only one thing that a man loves more than he loves a woman," she tells him.
"And what might that be?" he asks her.
"Another man," says she.
And hearing this, straightaway his thoughts went to Cuchulain; for many's the cold night they two shared a cloak in the years of their growing-up together.
But indeed, he said nothing at all.
After James Stephens
For more on Maeve, Fergus, and Cuchulain (and Cathbad the druid!), see Rosemary Sutcliff's spirited The Hound of Ulster.
And better it be if you read it to someone you love.
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