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In the novel, at a mundane level, a golden rose captures the beauty and danger of the Empress Alixana mechanical birds capture song for the amusement of emperors.But on a higher level, the mosaic Crispin designs captures the light of eternity and uses it to elevate the soul.

Yeats speaks in his poem of the transformative nature of art, its ability to capture what endures beyond the transitory beauties of roses and birds. And the bridge between them is shaped by art and myth. Both are essential, not only for their intrinsic values but also to keep each other in check. The forces of energy and imagination, always threatening to spin off into chaos, are represented by the half-million citizens of the city and beyond them of the fragmented Empire. On the one hand are the Empire and its omnipresent civil bureaucracy, and the repressive Patriarchy of Jad - the forces that restrict imagination and freedom. The novel is grounded in a very Blakean tension between the forces of order and energy. The voyage, thus, is not only physical but spiritual, an arrival at the edge of the cliff, poised like the Fool of YeatsвЂ™s tarot for flight or death. The title refers to the fact that вЂњTo say of a man that he was sailing to Sarantium was to say that his life was on the cusp of change: poised for emergent greatness, brilliance, fortune - or else at the very precipice of a final and absolute fall as he met something too vast for his capacityвЂќ. In the larger scheme of the diptych that is The Sarantine mosaic, this volume focuses on the voyage, and the second focuses on politics.

But what distinguishes Sarantium is what he has drawn from YeatsвЂ™s vision of Byzantium, his sense that the mystery of the cosmos and the power of imagination infuse the human world and raise it above the mundane but deadly realities of history. KayвЂ™s use of the historical Byzantium allows him the same accomplished examination of politics and religion that characterizes his first set of historical fantasies. In Sailing to Sarantium, Volume One of The Sarantine Mosaic, Kay moves east in his secondary world and three hundred years back in time, to write вЂњa fantasy upon themes of Byzantium.вЂќ He has found in Byzantium at its height - both the historical city and the one William Butler Yeats imagines in his poem вЂњSailing to ByzantiumвЂќ - his vehicle for exploring the intricate relationship of art and myth to Empire and religion. This review is part of an upcoming book on GGK being published by NIMROD PRESS (New Lambton, NSW, Australia) in the BABEL HANDBOOKS series. Loved the characters, even the (purposefully) annoying ones.Sailing to Sarantium Review by Dena Taylor

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He also happens to be the hottest guy on campus and just might be interested in her.As the competition progresses, Nicole wonders if she's making the right choice-especially when she learns that the strange fossils they'll be studying in Arches might not be as dead as everyone thinks.If you'd like to receive Praxis Novellas (the second book in this series) for free as well, you can grab a copy at the author's website here: Enjoy!What readers are saying:'Wow! Original, classic fantasy. Yet, to qualify for the trip, she must produce at least a speck of Wind magic, and that appears to be impossible.Nicole turns to her best friend, Lizzie, for help, along with fellow student Austin Young, who is considered by all a magical rarity. She is determined to show everyone, but mostly herself, that she does belong. In fact, she seems to be the only student at Katon University who fails at magic.This doesn't stop her from competing to be included on a university-led expedition to Arches National Park. Nicole Williams is an Arete-a fourth child with magical abilities-yet no matter how hard she tries, she can't Channel her power.

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