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"I am reading this novel with my friend Gorgam “Cocklewald” Baddy; I am reading the female version, he’s reading the male version.

I have just passed the introduction. It’s divided into three “books,” each an interpreted dream of the Khazar ruler from an official of each of the three Abrahamic Faiths.

I’m really excited to proceed."
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Cormac McCarthy
“I had no say in the matter. Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.”
Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

Stanisław Lem
“It turns out, however, that freedom of expression sometimes presents a greater threat to an idea, because forbidden thoughts may circulate in secret, but what can be done when an important fact is lost in a flood of impostors, and the voice of truth becomes drowned out in an ungodly din? When that voice, though freely resounding, cannot be heard, because the technologies of information have led to a situation in which one can receive best the message of him who shouts the loudest, even when the most falsely?”
Stanisław Lem, His Master's Voice

Stanisław Lem
“One has only to look through the history of science to reach the most probable conclusion: that the shape of things to come is determined by things we do not know today, and by what is unforeseeable.”
Stanisław Lem, His Master's Voice

Herman Melville
“Ignorance is the parent of fear”
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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Herman Melville
“All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.”
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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