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“I could see no stars through the crude hot haze of the truculent night. It always to me, at night in Calcutta, that the day has suffered a humiliating defeat. The light has surrendered and publicly admitted its impotence.”
― Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India
― Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India
“She kept looking at Gideon with the screwed-up eyes of someone who had been handed an egg for safekeeping and was surrounded by egg-hunting snakes.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
“When Mohammad Shah spoke, his face usually took on the expression of someone who has just taken a bite out of a lemon. At other times, in his more mellow moments, it was the expression of someone who had just stepped in shit.”
― Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India
― Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India
“On clear nights, when the stars were white on black instead of smoggy gray, we’d lie on the roof together and say cheesy things like, ‘At least they can’t charge us for moonlight.’ Although later they did, by way of imposing a curfew and fining those of us who broke it.”
― Where Futures End
― Where Futures End
“The revolution, which seeks to connect ideology to bureaucratic power and to manipulate behavior through the guise of expertise, is ultimately not democratic.”
― America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
― America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
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