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"And this night, why, it is but half done." ⛓️🗡️

Holy shit...

"Such was this night in the city of Darujhistan.
Such is this night, everywhere."

One of the best chapters ive ever read. This book is superb.

A mother rejecting their children – she could see how the artist had struggled with all those upturned faces, the despair and anguish twisting them – painted in tears, yes.

And this was a night like any other, a skein of expectations and anticipations, revelations and perturbations. Look around. Look around! On all sides, day and night, light and dark! Every step taken with the firm resolve to believe in the solid ground awaiting it. Every step, one after another, again and again, and no perilous ledge yawns ahead, oh no. Step and step, now, step and step—

See a bored child with a stick–and see how every beast nearby flees, understanding well what is now possible and, indeed, probable. See the child, eyes scanning the ground, swinging the stick down to crush insects, to thrash flowers, to wage a war of mayhem.Replace the stick with a sword.Explain how guilt need not be considered when the ones who must die are the enemy.
Unleash them, these children with the avid eyes

Out on the lake the water glittered with golden tears.
As if the sun might relinquish its hard glare and, for just this one moment, weep for the fate of a child.