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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 "
It all begins with Sherlock, though, doesn’t it? And with me. So, I suppose that is as good a place to start as any: with us.
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“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
“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
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
― Hocus Pocus
― Hocus Pocus
“Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews the mire, and you blame the mirror! Rather blame that high road upon which the puddle lies, still more the inspector of roads who allows the water to gather and the puddle to form.”
― The Red and the Black
― The Red and the Black
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