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“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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“The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.”
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“The wood lay still. The air throbbed with insects, and flies hovered and disappeared and hovered. Meadowsweet grew in a mist of flowers, and the sun glinted on the threads of caterpillars which hung from the trees as thick as rain. “By,” said Gwyn, “there’s axiomatic.”
― Alan Garner Classic Collection
― Alan Garner Classic Collection
“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
“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
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