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"Sometimes journeys drag as much on the readers of them as those that take it. The long trek of Rand and Mat as they try to reunite with the group in Caemlyn is one such. This being my second read thru makes it that much more tedious. It is one part I'm glad was left out in the series adaptation." — Nov 19, 2022 02:41PM
"Sometimes journeys drag as much on the readers of them as those that take it. The long trek of Rand and Mat as they try to reunite with the group in Caemlyn is one such. This being my second read thru makes it that much more tedious. It is one part I'm glad was left out in the series adaptation." — Nov 19, 2022 02:41PM
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"More is being revealed, but a great deal is still in reserve. As usual with books and movies of this sort, I am frustrated by the stubborn refusal of characters to acknowledge and adapt to their new reality. Or are at least slow to (p.208 psychological warfare). When younger I considered this unrealistic. Now I am saddened to acknowledge it is not." — Oct 13, 2022 08:27PM
"More is being revealed, but a great deal is still in reserve. As usual with books and movies of this sort, I am frustrated by the stubborn refusal of characters to acknowledge and adapt to their new reality. Or are at least slow to (p.208 psychological warfare). When younger I considered this unrealistic. Now I am saddened to acknowledge it is not." — Oct 13, 2022 08:27PM
“If you wear black, then kindly, irritating strangers will touch your arm consolingly and inform you that the world keeps on turning.
They're right. It does.
However much you beg it to stop.
It turns and lets grenadine spill over the horizon, sends hard bars of gold through my window and I wake up and feel happy for three seconds and then I remember.
It turns and tips people out of their beds and into their cars, their offices, an avalanche of tiny men and women tumbling through life...
All trying not to think about what's waiting at the bottom.
Sometimes it turns and sends us reeling into each other's arms. We cling tight, excited and laughing, strangers thrown together on a moving funhouse floor.
Intoxicated by the motion we forget all the risks.
And then the world turns...
And somebody falls off...
And oh God it's such a long way down.
Numb with shock, we can only stand and watch as they fall away from us, gradually getting smaller...
Receding in our memories until they're no longer visible.
We gather in cemeteries, tense and silent as if for listening for the impact; the splash of a pebble dropped into a dark well, trying to measure its depth.
Trying to measure how far we have to fall.
No impact comes; no splash. The moment passes. The world turns and we turn away, getting on with our lives...
Wrapping ourselves in comforting banalities to keep us warm against the cold.
"Time's a great healer."
"At least it was quick."
"The world keeps turning."
Oh Alec—
Alec's dead.”
― Swamp Thing, Vol. 5: Earth to Earth
They're right. It does.
However much you beg it to stop.
It turns and lets grenadine spill over the horizon, sends hard bars of gold through my window and I wake up and feel happy for three seconds and then I remember.
It turns and tips people out of their beds and into their cars, their offices, an avalanche of tiny men and women tumbling through life...
All trying not to think about what's waiting at the bottom.
Sometimes it turns and sends us reeling into each other's arms. We cling tight, excited and laughing, strangers thrown together on a moving funhouse floor.
Intoxicated by the motion we forget all the risks.
And then the world turns...
And somebody falls off...
And oh God it's such a long way down.
Numb with shock, we can only stand and watch as they fall away from us, gradually getting smaller...
Receding in our memories until they're no longer visible.
We gather in cemeteries, tense and silent as if for listening for the impact; the splash of a pebble dropped into a dark well, trying to measure its depth.
Trying to measure how far we have to fall.
No impact comes; no splash. The moment passes. The world turns and we turn away, getting on with our lives...
Wrapping ourselves in comforting banalities to keep us warm against the cold.
"Time's a great healer."
"At least it was quick."
"The world keeps turning."
Oh Alec—
Alec's dead.”
― Swamp Thing, Vol. 5: Earth to Earth
“Total Enlightenment is 'Vision without Purpose'.”
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“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
― The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
“Magic and art arise from an egomaniac's insistence that the artist is right, and the universe wrong.”
― Brightness Reef
― Brightness Reef
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