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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
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Fascinating and repulsive so far, a good read for those of us who love disease and pestilence.
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“Night falls fast.
Today is in the past.
Blown from the dark hill hither to my door
Three flakes, then four
Arrive, then many more.”
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Today is in the past.
Blown from the dark hill hither to my door
Three flakes, then four
Arrive, then many more.”
―
“The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine...
And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.”
― The Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective
And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.”
― The Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective
“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
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“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― VALIS
― VALIS
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