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Time was doing what time always does, going faster & faster as if downhill.
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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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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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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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This first book's for everyone, though almost no one wants it or would know how to read it.
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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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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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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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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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ad13309
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Woof," the dogman Nazi said."
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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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caed4ec
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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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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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Le lapidi erano banali, parevano chiedere scusa ai defunti.
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italian-quotes
tomba
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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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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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They looked like people-shaped clay in the moments before God breathed out.
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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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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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sometimes-guns, that violently assert the manchmal, this stuff, our everyday, against the always of the immer.
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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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Oratees are addicts. Strung out on an Ambassador's Language.
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His Infernal Excellency," he declared, "the ambassador of Hell."
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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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Saul was going to kill Anansi. They both knew it. Saul was going to kill Anansi and Loplop and King Rat, and Saul was going to die, all in an effort to prove that he was not his rat-father's son.
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instincts
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The Romanovian method becomes one of appointing adventurer after incompetent after nonentity to grand offices of state. The liberals and the sharper-witted right grow ever more apoplectic.
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This gentleman is cactus," said Doul."
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He was cheered by this. He was a scientist, not a mystic.
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What you up to, Isaac? They're so egalitarian . . . well . . . Their society's all based on maximizing choice for the individual, which is why they're communistic. Grants the most uninhibited choice to everyone. And as far as I remember the only crime they have is depriving another garuda of choice. And then it's exacerbated or mollified depending on whether they do it with or without respect, which they absolutely love . . .
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If the fucking Scar exists," whispered the Brucolac, still without turning, "and if they get us there and by some gods-fucked miracle we survive, then they'll still destroy us. We are not an expeditionary force; we are not on some fucking quest. This is a city, Uther. We live; we buy; we sell; we steal; we trade. We are a port. This is not about adventures." He turned and faced Uther Doul with his eyes caustic. "You know that. That's why yo..
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Termagant!" he moaned after her. "Shrew! Harridan! All right, all right, you win, you, you . . . uh . . . virago, you spitfire . . ." He rubbed his head and sat up, grinned sheepishly. Lin made an obscene gesture at him without turning around."
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A haggard man used one of the huts as a home. He lay on a sagging mattress, his head on his pack, surrounded by rubbish - paper, porcelain shards, food remains and unidentifiable debris. His hand was over his eyes. He looked like a failed soldier. Dirt seemed so worked into him that the lines of his face were like writing.
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simile
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