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In The Night Wood

by Dale Bailey

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Oct 15, 2026 08:20AM

“But if the book were an interesting one, perhaps it wouldn't be so bad. He could get caught up in the story, so to speak, and little by little begin to forget himself. But this book offers him nothing. There is no story, no plot, no action—nothing but a man sitting alone in a room and writing a book.”
― Paul Auster, Ghosts

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“I immediately developed a physical repulsion for the father and prohibited him from coming in to see the baby. All I heard was the note of surprise in his bass voice from the corridor when the midwife told him she had ordered him a cab. From that day on, I made it a rule: I dismissed my men by calling them a cab. "Your cab is here" became my favorite line.”
― Hallgrímur Helgason, Woman at 1,000 Degrees

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“When he went back to his book again his sense of power had lost its asperity, and the spectacle of life seemed less like a witless dangling of limp dolls.”
― Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country

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“Ignorance often does screw over truth,”
― T. Kingfisher, Daggerbound

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“Adam's one task in the Garden had been to invent language, to give each creature and thing its name. In that state of innocence, his tongue had gone straight to the quick of the world. His words had not been merely appended to the things he saw, they had revealed their essences, had literally brought them to life. A thing and its name were interchangeable. After the fall, this was no longer true. Names became detached from things; words devolved into a collection of arbitrary signs; language had been severed from God. The story of the Garden, therefore, records not only the fall of man, but the fall of language.”
― Paul Auster, City of Glass

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