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✔️ Empires of Foliage and Flower

✔️ The God and His Man

buxom haunches > mighty thews

I really love all the various stories within the story.

We have countless ways that we've described sunrises and sunsets, but it's pretty universal in our words that the sun arises from the East and sinks into the West.

When Severian describes sunrises and sunsets, he writes about the Eastern horizon falling below the sun at dawn, and the Western horizon rising up to cover the sun at dusk.

"'How big is a man's life?' asked Ultan.

'I have no way of knowing, but isn't it larger than that?'

'You see it from the beginning, and anticipate much. I, recollecting it from its termination, know how little there has been.'"

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I love the whole section with the picture gallery, and the library, and the cryptic Borges stand-in who paraphrases the Bible and Socrates and Borges himself.

"In the time of the great Roman, Julius Cæsar, about five hundred years before King Arthur was born, the people of Rome conquered Britain."

Mmm. Did they really though?