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“I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.”
― Boneland
― Boneland
“But what can we do?” said Susan.
“Think, and hope,” said Cadellin.
“I would rather seek and find,” said Uthecar.”
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“Think, and hope,” said Cadellin.
“I would rather seek and find,” said Uthecar.”
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“It's not a job but a condition.
(Alan Garner on writing)”
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(Alan Garner on writing)”
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“He cut the veil of the rock; the hooves clattered the bellowing waters below him in the dark. The lamp brought the moon from the blade, and the blade the bull from the rock. The ice rang.”
― Boneland
― Boneland
“I hope there isn't,' [a final answer] said Colin. "I'm for uncertainty. As soon as you think you know, you're done for. You don't listen and you can't hear. If you're certain of anything, you shut the door on the possibility of revelation, of discovery. You can think. You can believe. But you can't, you mustn't, 'know'. There's the real Entropy.”
― Boneland
― Boneland
Gold Wake Press
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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Discussion, recommendations, and all-over appreciation for Britain's own myth maker, Professor J.R.R. Tolkien. ...more
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