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A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #8)

by Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)

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“There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - these qualities you find always in that the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush of the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and in our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move towards death.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: death, fixity, pattern, perfection, society, universe

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“the map is not the territory”
― Alfred Korzybski

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“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: muad-dib, order, princess-irulan, reality, understanding

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“The universe contains a maybe”
― Robert Anton Wilson

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“I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.”
― Robert Anton Wilson

tags: esoteric-wisdom, previous-thoughts

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