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"Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else's snakes can ever be as awful."

As saucy as the title implies

Sad gay men!
And some of the best writing I've read, so far

GETTING THERE

A few notable quotes:

"There was something extraordinarily pathetic about a Reputation defended from the floor."

"Jack had learned that commodities understood much more about themselves than their buyers could ever begin to grasp. They were bursting with Histories to tell."

"They wish to dry the earth to a cracked turf so that they can make our hands, our vitality, into property. Our sweat a property."

Already excellent; Rosenberg is a scholar as well as an author and it shows. So much attention paid to the little gaps in the archive, so much care.

Big disagreement with what Grey is saying already, not so much with the idea that art can have powerful spiritual affect (I think it can), but mainly with the idea that humans are somehow on a pre-written path to Enlightenment, and that that's what art is there for.

In book 2 we get to learn a bit more about the fire nation's obsession with honor!