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“I wonder now if [the gods] take from us that which we love so we must seek them, if only to scavenge for meaning in this existence.”
― The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen
― The Legend of Sheba: Rise of a Queen
“It sounds like a terrible idea,” said Friday. “But that doesn’t mean it won’t work.”
― Big Trouble
― Big Trouble
“The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (above all) to love no one.”
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“He sat in the chapel for hours picking his way through fugues. A dozen notes, hardly music. But then those few notes spoke to each other, subject and answer, by repetition, by diminution, by augmentation, even looping backwards on themselves in a course like the retrograde motion of Mars. He listened as if he had as many ears as fingertips, and, like a blind man, could feel textures that were barely there. At the end of two or three pages of music he would hear all the voices twining together in a construction of such dizzying power that the walls of the chapel could barely contain it.”
― The Lieutenant
― The Lieutenant
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