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I found I had taken an irrational dislike to Junior Allen, that smiling man. And I do not function too well on emotional motivations. I am wary of them. And I am wary of a lot of other things, such as plastic credit cards, payroll
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“My own plain hand, crosshatched and whorled in a mesh of expressive lines, a life terrain, might itself be the object of a person’s study and wonder for years. A cosmology against the void.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
“In memory, we find the most complete release from the narrowness of presented time and place.... The picture is one of human beings confronted by a world in which they can be masters only as they ... discover ways of escape from the complete sway of immediate circumstances. —F. C. Bartlett, Remembering”
― The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
― The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
“You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn’t, he sent men to come and take it away.”
― Guards! Guards!
― Guards! Guards!
“Crime fiction for the gentleman who loves crime novels, but hates reading.”
― Red Handler
― Red Handler
“As the twain eyed each other challengingly through the murky fog lit indirectly by distant torches, they were already dimly aware that they were two long-sundered, matching fragments of a greater hero and that each had found a comrade who would outlast a thousand quests and a lifetime—or a hundred lifetimes—of adventuring.”
― The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser: Swords and Deviltry, Swords Against Death, and Swords in the Mist
― The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser: Swords and Deviltry, Swords Against Death, and Swords in the Mist
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Paul’s 2025 Year in Books
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