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A tremendous debut combining the political intrigue of high fantasy, touching personal drama, and a thrilling mystery plot. And also, there's a dragon. But it might not be what you think.Exiled Magic is the first in a trilogy about the kingdom of Kri ...more "
For years he’d been dreaming of leaving New York and going back to Egypt: of getting out of this musty apartment where all he could see when he looked down the street were boarded-up windows stretching across the fronts of buildings that
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“There was nothing, really, that could stop life from continuing on, except for its opposite, and even then, it went on for everyone else.”
― Beings
― Beings
“To be looked at, to be seen, however fleetingly, is to exist.”
― Beings
― Beings
“When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion.
Just as the extreme of pain meets sensual pleasure, and the extreme of perversion borders on mystical energy, so too the extreme of banality allows us to catch a glimpse of the Sublime.”
― Travels in Hyperreality
Just as the extreme of pain meets sensual pleasure, and the extreme of perversion borders on mystical energy, so too the extreme of banality allows us to catch a glimpse of the Sublime.”
― Travels in Hyperreality
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
― Hocus Pocus
― Hocus Pocus
“There are many ways to be seen, and the Archivist firmly believes in the importance of witnessing the past through the detritus it leaves behind, more or less preserved.”
― Beings
― Beings
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