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Am I missing something? I'm liking it and enjoying the talk of translation concepts and the original style of narration with the second narrator for footnotes as in an academic text, but so far I enjoyed Katabasis more
— Jun 23, 2026 11:33PM
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‘Scary, isn’t it? Think, why is this more frightening than a knife?’ Griffin did not move his arm. ‘It says I’m willing to kill you, and all I have to do is pull this trigger. I can kill at a distance, without effort. A gun takes all the hard work out of murder and makes it elegant. It shrinks the distance between resolve and action, you see?’
— Jun 24, 2026 05:05AM
Morwen
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‘Nice comes from the Latin word for “stupid”,’* said Griffin. ‘We do not want to be nice.’
* This is true. Nice comes to us by way of the Old French nice (‘weak, clumsy, silly’), from the Latin nescius (‘ignorant, not knowing’).
— Jun 24, 2026 04:59AM
* This is true. Nice comes to us by way of the Old French nice (‘weak, clumsy, silly’), from the Latin nescius (‘ignorant, not knowing’).
