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“a soulmate of exquisite taste, intellect and wit.”
― Christopher Brookmyre, A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away

“He also saw at the Time a Great Finger reaching in from the Distance, pausing at Draco and,- gently for a Finger of its size,- stirring up into a small Vortex the Stars there.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“They are approaching now a lengthy brick improvisation, a Victorian paraphrase of what once, long ago, resulted in Gothic cathedrals—but which, in its own time, arose not from any need to climb through the fashioning of suitable confusions toward any apical God, but more in a derangement of aim, a doubt as to the God’s actual locus (or, in some, as to its very existence), out of a cruel network of sensuous moments that could not be transcended and so bent the intentions of the builders not on any zenith, but back to fright, to simple escape, in whatever direction, from what the industrial smoke, street excrement, windowless warrens, shrugging leather forests of drive belts, flowing and patient shadow states of the rats and flies, were saying about the chances for mercy that year.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow