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Forrest Aguirre is a writer who has been on my radar for a while, and I'm glad I finally got a chance to read his work. Swans Over the Moon is a short novel, built with vivid language and an alternately comic and tragic plot that has some echoes of K
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"The Scaramouche moved first, a slowly-marching rectangular formation spiked with extended weapons like a giant, sea urchin-encrusted barge crawling across the barren moonscape. The bustling ink-flow seethed with purpose in a cadence of stately progression, flowing over rocks and through dry wadis as the blue planet loomed ever larger up above." — Jul 30, 2020 05:49PM
"The Scaramouche moved first, a slowly-marching rectangular formation spiked with extended weapons like a giant, sea urchin-encrusted barge crawling across the barren moonscape. The bustling ink-flow seethed with purpose in a cadence of stately progression, flowing over rocks and through dry wadis as the blue planet loomed ever larger up above." — Jul 30, 2020 05:49PM
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“His greatest virtue, I think, was his honesty--not only to others but to himself...He demanded freedom of expression and lived in what we consider the most important of moral freedoms; freedom from hate, unconditionally; freedom from all self-pity (even throughout all the pain and bad news); freedom from fear of possibly doing something that might help another more than it might help himself; and freedom from that kind of pride that could make a man feel he was better than his brother or neighbor”
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