“You have trouble in finding answers because you have declared all the relevant material and subjects as taboo.”
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“Taboos, though unadmitted, are potent. What is it that people fear? What they don't understand. The civilized man is not a whit different from the savage in this respect. The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is, different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.”
― The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
― The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
“Here, in Egypt, the morning of Alexander’s adventure ends. Henceforth he is divided; Alexandria is his first possession and he is no longer free.”
― Twelve Against the Gods
― Twelve Against the Gods
“There's an accent shift, on average, every 25 miles in England”
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