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Jake Turner
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“I didn’t want to read it, but it was my strict policy never to disagree with people. Bitter experience had taught me that the minute you contradict someone, you instantly get sucked into their asinine private world. By avoiding arguments I wound up not talking to anyone. I lived utterly alone in my own asinine private world. Terribly alone and constantly crowded by idiots—that was my life. Rats gnaw off their feet with less provocation.”
― The Troika
― The Troika
“When a man dies before his time, how much is truly lost?
More than just a life, certainly.
A branch withers and bears no more fruit. Futures are erased.
Paths close that can never be re-opened.
Would his offspring have been saints? Killers? Both?
When a man dies before his time, the answers go with him.
This begs the question: should not all men be saved?”
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More than just a life, certainly.
A branch withers and bears no more fruit. Futures are erased.
Paths close that can never be re-opened.
Would his offspring have been saints? Killers? Both?
When a man dies before his time, the answers go with him.
This begs the question: should not all men be saved?”
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“Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast to a genre of commodity or a section in a bookstore, by breaking it. Michael Moorcock revived fantasy by prying it loose from morality; writers like Jeff VanderMeer, Stepan Chapman, Lucius Shepard, Jeffrey Ford, Nathan Ballingrud are doing the same by prying fantasy away from pedestrian writing, with more vibrant and daring styles, more reflective thinking, and a more widely broadcast spectrum of themes.”
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