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"THIS IS ALREADY SO GOOD (MIGHT RESTORE MY FAITH IN NON FICTION)" — Jul 02, 2025 03:06AM
"THIS IS ALREADY SO GOOD (MIGHT RESTORE MY FAITH IN NON FICTION)" — Jul 02, 2025 03:06AM
“It isn't pretty, he wanted to say, it's lonely, it's desolate, it's a chilling portrait of vastness. How ignorant are you to look at this and diminish it to some kind of trinket, are you dead? It's the human condition! It's the entire universe itself! It's the depths of spacetime you utter fucking philistine and how dare you, how fucking dare you stand there and fail to weep? What kind of sad, unremarkable nothingness have you so callously lived that you can witness the splendor of her existence and not fall to your knees for having missed it, for having misunderstood it all this time? Pretty, that's what you think this is? You think that's all she's capable of? You fool, she's done the impossible. She has explained everything there is to know about the world in less than the time it took for your eyes to filly focus, and do you realize that I will spend a lifetime trying to do the same never come close? This is an opus!, this is a triumph!, this is the meaning of life and you would think the answer would be satire, but it isn't, its Truth. She told the Truth like you could never dream of telling it, and I pity you, that you could see the inside of your own soul and reduce it like this, so pitilessly. So carelessly. With the vacuous deficiency of, Oh, this is pretty.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“The Whispering Blade met Misaki’s obsidian sheath and sheared through it. Her eyes went wide, and she smiled—Gods in the Deep, she smiled —a raw, open smile, and it was the most beautiful thing in all the Duna.”
― The Sword of Kaigen
― The Sword of Kaigen
“So this is what it is to love something you cannot control, he thought. It felt precisely like terror.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“A decade later, a fifteen-year-old Hiroshi would become known as the youngest swordsman ever to master the Whispering Blade. What the world would never know, was that he was the second youngest.”
― The Sword of Kaigen
― The Sword of Kaigen
“For every sensation Regan could conjure, there was an artist who had beautifully suffered the same.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
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