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Do you ever do that thing where you read a paragraph three times not because you didn't understand it but because it's beautiful? There are times reading BOTNS that I genuinely have to reread because I have no idea what just happened--but just as often, if not more, I am simply in awe of the voice in which it's written. It's an almost physical sensation of dizzying poetry.
— Oct 18, 2025 01:39PM
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Severian climbs a mountain and glimpses the cosmos:
“Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its endless row of years; and we flow past like Gyoll, on our way to a sea from which we shall return only as rain.
I knew then, on the arm of that giant figure, the ambition to conquer time…”
— Oct 21, 2025 11:17PM
“Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its endless row of years; and we flow past like Gyoll, on our way to a sea from which we shall return only as rain.
I knew then, on the arm of that giant figure, the ambition to conquer time…”
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"... peaks so high they appeared to be literally without summit, as though the whole world had been falling forever from some unimaginable Heaven, which yet retained its hold on these mountains."
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Z wrote: ""... peaks so high they appeared to be literally without summit, as though the whole world had been falling forever from some unimaginable Heaven, which yet retained its hold on these mountains.""This was actually one of the passages I had in mind!
This evening, I read chapter XIII and XIV, and the descriptions of the stars and the stone forest are now going into my document of passages to dissect and study for their prosody.
