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"Honestly taking a million years to finish this one. Typical of me with non-fiction books. I’m highly entertained and intrigued, though." — Oct 05, 2026 11:13AM
"Honestly taking a million years to finish this one. Typical of me with non-fiction books. I’m highly entertained and intrigued, though." — Oct 05, 2026 11:13AM
“Words and phrases you think are carved into your bones can disappear in no time.”
― Babel
― Babel
“I have good reason to be content,
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.”
―
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.”
―
“Anyway', Anthony said ushering them away, 'that's Literature. One of the worst applications of Babel education, if you ask me.'
'You don't approve?' Robin asked. He shared Victoire's delight; a life spent on the fourth floor would be wonderful.
'Me? No.', Anthony chuckled, 'I'm here for silver-working. I think the Literature Department are an indulgent lot, as Vimal knows. See, the sad thing is they could be they could be the most dangerous scholars of them all, because they are the ones who really understand languages - know how they live and breathe or how they can make our blood pump, our skin prickle with just a turn of a phrase. But they are just too obsessed fiddling with their lovely images to bother with how all that living energy might be channelled into something far more powerful. I mean, of course, silver.”
― Babel
'You don't approve?' Robin asked. He shared Victoire's delight; a life spent on the fourth floor would be wonderful.
'Me? No.', Anthony chuckled, 'I'm here for silver-working. I think the Literature Department are an indulgent lot, as Vimal knows. See, the sad thing is they could be they could be the most dangerous scholars of them all, because they are the ones who really understand languages - know how they live and breathe or how they can make our blood pump, our skin prickle with just a turn of a phrase. But they are just too obsessed fiddling with their lovely images to bother with how all that living energy might be channelled into something far more powerful. I mean, of course, silver.”
― Babel
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