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Philip Ulbrich
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If there were not so many rules to hinder them, I think that men would look at women all the time. Once there is food enough in one’s stomach, what else is there to do in life? You see it every day with women in the market or on the
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“But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice—guessed and refused to believe—that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children. . . .”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
“Fickt nicht mit dem Raketemensch!”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
“An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.”
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“Ghosts were imaginary, but hauntings were real.”
― Record of a Spaceborn Few
― Record of a Spaceborn Few
“And I tell you straight out: suspicious this makes me, for what is the cause to bring magic back when it has been replaced by something clearly more serviceable? So the first riddle I put my mind to was this: in a world where carriages travel without beasts to pull them, and food is effortlessly abundant, and there is ample light to sunder any darkness, from all manner of peculiar torches, none of them given to burning down a place even if it is all wood, and where all and sundry wear grander clothes than most anyone in London and an astonishing variety what’s more . . . something there must be, some commodity or advantage, that magic can attain but mankind cannot yet. Nothing material can it be, for no magic I ever knew summoned such luxuries for royalty as everyday folk here take as commonplace.”
― The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
― The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
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