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2169e8f
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Once he had thought it a refuge, once he had thought it holiness.... But now he began to suspect that the good brothers did not shadow the ether not because they were good, but because they had masked themselves everything, had carefully erased their stray thoughts, had poured out their human longings, emptied themselves of desires and become so transparent as existence that they had not only ceased to be evil, they had ceased to be good...
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Oh, man,' Azdra'ik said. 'This is what our eldest saw. This is what our legends say. Who could know, but us?
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myth
world-building
legends
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C.J. Cherryh |
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Were the seeds of next things always there, in the circle of the year, and was that how the world worked its miracles?
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C.J. Cherryh |
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He could be distracted, still, by beauty, by the wonder of a stroke of sunlight. Perhaps at such times he made himself open to wizardry-or conversely, was as warded and safe at such moments as Ynefel at its strongest. Perhaps threats simply slid past his attention and he made himself immune.
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wonder
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C.J. Cherryh |
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d9e84f8
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The world was full of life, more life than they could hold back with guns or fences; it came into the town at night; it seduced the children and year by year crept closer.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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seeing the mystery of forest leaves and the wonder in a water-polished stone, a light had come on him, a bright, bright hope, that this was the true world, all around him, truer than his darkening sight. And ever after that and forever, he hoped for himself, and whenever he thought of dark and practical deeds, why, that light distracted him toward this dream he had....
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C.J. Cherryh |
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My name's Elai, Ellai's daughter, line of the first Cloud, the first Elly; of Pia, line of the first Jin when they made the world. And you're on my land.
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genealogy
ownership
land
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C.J. Cherryh |
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e2c9459
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Take care of him, her father had charged her. She had thought - until he wakes. But she began to see what her father had trusted to her, and how very much Sasha needed someone he could trust- Someone as brave as her father, someone not afraid of him - no matter what.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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bf61ac7
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Belief... was its own magic-so long as it was carefully placed, often examined, like a bridge kept in careful repair.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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He was home, but he wasn't. He had gotten where he had to go, but he hadn't. He had found out who he was, but he didn't know why it had failed to satify his questions.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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d22aa22
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And she learned to do that, be very nice to people she knew quite well were the Enemy, and even like them sometimes: it didn't mean you weren't going to Get them, because they were bound to do something that would remind you what they were sooner or later.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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055248c
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A bizarre hysteria, perhaps, that point which many reached here, when anger was all that mattered. It led to self-destruction.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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cb8078d
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Their minds were geared to the old problems and to their own problems and their own politics.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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8ced2c3
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Change, son of mine, should be applied like salt to a dish--best taste it, understand it, and then decide." "Is"
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C.J. Cherryh |
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d07bcc0
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He knew that he wielded magic as well as iron, and yet looked away from it, and made himself fables to explain his own presence in the world, and sought gods who might be more powerful than himself. It would be very comfortable if there were someone more powerful than himself, on this Road, on this particular morning, someone to guide him, even someone to blame....
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C.J. Cherryh |
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dfbe4de
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He had read about evil in Efanor's little book, and how it permeated the doings of Men, but he had never foud such doings evil, rather good and bad...but none without self-interest, none he could not understand even in terms of his own will to have his way.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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He watched the desert slip under the airship's nose, and the land roughened into highlands over which he had traveled at great cost, in great pain - dreamlike, such speed, looking down on a world where time moved more slowly, where realities were different and immediate and he had learned for a time to live.
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wilderness
technology
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C.J. Cherryh |
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11e8c48
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I couldn't yet see the limits of my life, but he could see the limits of his. His life was thin, and he had a hunger for recognition.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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c366d4d
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Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
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warehouse
trade
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C.J. Cherryh |
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9b148ea
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If I can make you angry... I have passed your guard again. I have given you something to think about besides the Game
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C.J. Cherryh |
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There was a wicked man once who called a hatani. 'Kill my neighbor,' he said. 'That's not hatani business,' the hatani said and went away. The wicked man found another hatani. 'My life is wretched,' the wicked man said. 'I hate my neighbor. I want to see him die,' 'That is a hatani matter,' the hatani said. 'Do you give it into my hands?' 'Yes,' the wicked man said. And the hatani struck him dead. Do you understand the solution?" Thorn"
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C.J. Cherryh |
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People who do something can always make a mistake. So can people who do nothing.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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abc9fcf
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It lent a Man a certain peace of mind... to ride through threats and terrors unhearing: it even lent a man a certain real protection, for he could not hear temptation and bad advice to be swayed by it, but it was no protection at all when power reached out with tangible results and brought down the lightning.
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power
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C.J. Cherryh |
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13013c0
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The t'ca [ship] left them, rolled and slewed off in a maneuver that made sense to a multi-brained snake.
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science-fiction
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C.J. Cherryh |
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It represents a real point of consensus we haven't got now, and a lot of people were willing to give up things they wanted so they could get that agreement. It was a point in human history where all of Union agreed to a set of priorities, and now we'll either prove that agreement still binds everybody, or we'll prove somebody with enough guns can run everything at any given moment; and that means no peace, even for them.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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160f5c8
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That's why the forms matter. People have to see things done by the rules. We've got to make people feel safe again and make them believe that compromises are going to be binding.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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a3eb890
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We cannot say what we would have been, but we can still say what we will be. We are making up that sentence as we go, and we shall never be through with that statement.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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461e730
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It's the being there; the working of it; the feel of moving through what could surprise you at any moment. It's being a dust speck in that scale and pushing your way through all that Empty on your own terms, that no world can do and nothing spinning around one.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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c778483
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A lot of new money-- paid out in the least educated provinces, to elect fools who'll take orders, who can only see ways to entrench themselves and make sure contracts go to the right companies. Some of these fools are evident, and shrewd country-folk keep voting them in because the powers in their districts might buy one ten times worse and far more subtle.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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305b94f
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It was a scientific success, bringing back data enough to keep the analysts busy for years... but there was no glib, slick way to explain the full meaning of its observations in layman's terms. In public relations the mission was a failure; the public, seeking to understand on their own terms, looked for material benefit, treasure, riches, dramatic findings.
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sensationalism
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C.J. Cherryh |
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64c8cd1
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Unquestioning believers who thought they questioned everything, unhearing believers who heard nothing that in the least degree questioned the tenets of their sacred quest toward a salvation they predetermined to exist.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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4553b6c
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That's the trouble getting involved in politics, nobody wears a name badge!
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C.J. Cherryh |
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c349f05
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Don't mourn might-have-beens . Magic can't work backwards , only forward . I taught you better than that .
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C.J. Cherryh |
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But it was safety he had found at Uwen's back, at long last, after long running. Uwen offered him protection, a trusted, a kindly presence, strong enough to chase the shadows for him.
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C.J. Cherryh |
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363e082
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I will give you the hearts of your enemies.
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kif
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C.J. Cherryh |