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“J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it’s big and up close. Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji.”
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“It was a soft thing, his grief. A shake here. A few persistent tears, slipping down his cheeks.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
“And yet the simple words spoke to him. Death comes, they whispered. Death comes to all. But life comes first. Cherish it. Death is the destination. But the journey, that is life. That is what matters.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
Alex Wright’s 2025 Year in Books
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