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Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.
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inspirational
injury
scar
healing
scars
recovery
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China Miéville |
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When people dis fantasy--mainstream readers and SF readers alike--they are almost always talking about one sub-genre of fantastic literature. They are talking about , and Tolkien's innumerable heirs. Call it 'epic', or 'high', or 'genre' fantasy, this is what fantasy has come to mean. Which is misleading as well as unfortunate. Tolkien is the wen on the arse of fantasy literature. His oeuvre is massive and contagious--you can't ignore it, ..
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literature
clichés
j-r-r-tolkien
fantasy-fiction
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China Miéville |
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William Gibson told only half the story: like the future, the past is also here in the present, and just as unevenly distributed.
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China Miéville |
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The Canadians had Terrell. He was uninfected, in quarantine, and knew nothing.
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China Miéville |
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Oh for God's sake," he said. The men and women stared. He could see them attempting exegesis on his outburst." --
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China Miéville |
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But here's the problem you're not addressing. While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlu, however they've come by the evidence, this is the correct decision.
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China Miéville |
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Stated most simply, New Death is the condition whereby human corpses now lie always on a horizontal vector--no matter the angle of the surface or the substance of the matter below them--and now orient so that their feet are facing all observers, all the time.
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China Miéville |
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Tell ," Bren said. "I thought you'd despaired." "I did, too." "What then? Tell me." I told him. Revelation was spoiled for him, but I can retain it here, for you."
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China Miéville |
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Time was doing what time always does, going faster & faster as if downhill.
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China Miéville |
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So I would stand in that cupboard and see how the stores were decreasing. I knew we had weeks to go before all of it was gone but I knew also that it was depleting and that various staples would be finished soon, leaving us with those items of which we had a surplus, like dried mushrooms, which would far outlast anything else. I wondered if my father would simply refuse to address this. If he would make meals or have me make them with fewer..
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China Miéville |
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Hello slash query is all well? parenthesis enquiry after suitability of timing slash insinuations of warmness sixty percent insinuations of belief that interlocutor has topic to be discussed forty percent blah blah." I raised an eyebrow. "It was pointless."
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China Miéville |
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I do not dream, der Grimnebulin. I am a calculating machine that has calculated how to think. I do not dream.
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China Miéville |
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Liberation was fucked up.
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China Miéville |
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This first book's for everyone, though almost no one wants it or would know how to read it.
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China Miéville |
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He said, You'll write it not because there's no possibility it'll be found but because it costs too much to not write it.
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China Miéville |
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the second book's for readers, he said. But you can't know when they'll come, if they do. It's the book for telling: no code for that one. But--he counted one again and had my close attention--you can still use it to tell secrets and send messages. Even so. You could say them right out, but you can hide them in the words too, in their letters, in the ordering on lines, the arrangements and rhythms.
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China Miéville |
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Lenin turned to page 2 of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung. There, a short report informed of a revolution in Petrograd. Lenin, too, looked u in thought, his eyes wide.
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russian-revolution
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China Miéville |
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Si riferisce ai loro poteri magici? Vorrei, lo vorrei tanto. Ma anche cosi questi scavi sono incomparabili. La cultura materiale non ha nessun senso. Non esiste nessun'altra parte al mondo in cui si possa riportare alla luce quelli che sembrano oggetti della tarda antichita con bordi taglienti, reperti in bronzo bellissimi e compositi mischiati con materiale palesemente neolitico. Con questa roba e come se la stratigrafia andasse a farsi be..
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China Miéville |
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Tutte le note erano come a strati, un palinsesto di interpretazione in progresso. Feci archeologia.
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China Miéville |
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Sometimes, don't you sometimes wish you didn't care? I mean course you want a change, we want a change, but if a change ain't godsdamn coming, then the next thing I wish is that I didn't care.
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China Miéville |
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No existe nada igual en ningun sitio -dijo -. En ningun sitio. No se trata de los sonidos. No es en los sonidos donde vive el significado.
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China Miéville |
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Ilse Aichinger, "The Bound Man"
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China Miéville |
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ad13309
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Woof," the dogman Nazi said."
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China Miéville |
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The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.
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China Miéville |
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At dawn a great shark mouth appears at the horizon smiling like a stupid angel and chewing silently on the sky. Women
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China Miéville |
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If she were studying Orciny, and there might be excellent reasons to do so, she'd be doing her doctorate in Folklore or Anthropology or maybe Comp Lit. Granted, the edges of disciplines are getting vague. Also that Mahalia is one of a number of young archaeologists more interested in Foucault and Baudrillard than in Gordon Childe or in trowels.
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China Miéville |
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So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.
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China Miéville |
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I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.
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China Miéville |
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Walls and ceilings moved with ratcheting mechanical life like the offspring of chains and crabs.
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China Miéville |
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A Kedis troika approached afterward, colourcells winking in their frills, and the shemale speaker thanked him in her curious diction, shaking his hand with her prehensile genitalia.
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China Miéville |
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Le lapidi erano banali, parevano chiedere scusa ai defunti.
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tomba
italian-quotes
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China Miéville |
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The one that goes: I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
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China Miéville |
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Either way, it is a curio of the moment that hard-left advocates of 'all power to the soviets' were delegated by a soviet opponent to defend the Soviet currently arguing furiously against taking the power they wanted it to take. Those
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China Miéville |
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UnLondon would have to look after itself. She wasn't the Shwazzy. She was just someone. How could just someone be any help, whatever was going on?
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China Miéville |
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The early years of a Bes (and presumably an Ul Qoman) child are intense learnings of cues. We pick up styles of clothing, permissible colours, ways of walking and holding oneself, very fast. Before we were eight or so most of us could be trusted not to breach embarrassingly and illegally, though licence of course is granted children every moment they are in the street.
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China Miéville |
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They looked like people-shaped clay in the moments before God breathed out.
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China Miéville |
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7801991
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Sometimes I'd go to his house. If I had some cool cards in my pack of Iceberg Updates, we'd compare collections, maybe swap a few.
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China Miéville |
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Same weather over here as back home," I said."
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China Miéville |
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But sharing has its limits. It might make you famous, but chances are it won't earn you a buck. It might find you new people to connect with, but it won't make it any easier to click with them. And it might let you tell the world what's on your mind; but it won't make the world listen.
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China Miéville |
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sometimes-guns, that violently assert the manchmal, this stuff, our everyday, against the always of the immer.
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China Miéville |
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Edward Gibbon: "As the happiness of a future life is the great object of religion, we may hear without surprise or scandal that the introduction, or at least the abuse, of Christianity, had some influence on the decline and fall of the Roman empire. The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity; the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of military spirit were buried in the cloister:..
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China Miéville |
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Oratees are addicts. Strung out on an Ambassador's Language.
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China Miéville |
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77749d6
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His Infernal Excellency," he declared, "the ambassador of Hell."
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China Miéville |
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3b18b1b
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This had been the seat of sovereignty, and it cropped up throughout the city's history if you knew where to look. Jack Cade touched his sword to the London Stone when claiming grievances against the king: that was what gained him the right to speak, he said, and others believed. Did he wonder why it had turned on him, afterward? Perhaps after the change in his fortunes, his head had looked down from the pike on the bridge, seen his quartere..
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China Miéville |