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Mercedes Lackey
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Mercedes Lackey, Freedom Flight

“As Aristotle noted long ago, the widespread use today of the decimal system is but the result of the anatomical accident that most of us are born with ten fingers and ten toes.”
Carl B. Boyer, A History of Mathematics

Harold Bloom
“Falstaff’s wistful self-portrait is poignant since it suggests his forlorn wish that he somehow could be a father to Hal. That longing has in it the seed of self-destruction.”
Harold Bloom, Falstaff: Give Me Life

H. Rider Haggard
“Haggard is concerned not so much by cultural specifics as by the transience and fragility of all cultures.”
H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines

Edgar Allan Poe
“The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.”
Edgar Allan Poe, The Dupin Tales

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