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Not the easiest novel to take in, even in this age of advanced computing, as each chapter seems to be a barely-connected episode compared with its three-chapter-back storyline. Maybe for those well versed in Gibson’s technobabble can piece together w
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(page 389 of 496)
"Somber and more urgent the essays and introductions become, insisting that the audience gets the point that tyranny and ecological ruin can be avoided, but it seems from the current re-revival that her words fell onto deaf ears. Or maybe that was her Mashupzyxtian-Prospero plan all along to lull us into a false sense of security before enacting her Jacobean revenge plot through “a word after a word after a word.”" — Feb 16, 2026 01:55PM
"Somber and more urgent the essays and introductions become, insisting that the audience gets the point that tyranny and ecological ruin can be avoided, but it seems from the current re-revival that her words fell onto deaf ears. Or maybe that was her Mashupzyxtian-Prospero plan all along to lull us into a false sense of security before enacting her Jacobean revenge plot through “a word after a word after a word.”" — Feb 16, 2026 01:55PM
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(page 61 of 210)
"The idea behind this book is intriguing: a peek behind the curtain of the post-production process for major Hollywood movies, except for the career trajectory of Goetz detailing the success stories for films that are mostly mediocre. He can only work with the cards he has been dealt, I guess, but one has to wonder if any test screening has ever truly revealed a hidden gem rather than reinforcing American monoculture." — Feb 20, 2025 02:05PM
"The idea behind this book is intriguing: a peek behind the curtain of the post-production process for major Hollywood movies, except for the career trajectory of Goetz detailing the success stories for films that are mostly mediocre. He can only work with the cards he has been dealt, I guess, but one has to wonder if any test screening has ever truly revealed a hidden gem rather than reinforcing American monoculture." — Feb 20, 2025 02:05PM
“This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.”
― InterWorld
― InterWorld
“When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.”
― Imperium
― Imperium
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