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70f55a1
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Isaac liked the idea of an inter-aspectual entity so enamoured with knowledge that it just roamed from realm to realm in a bath, murmuring with interest at everything it came across.
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China Miéville |
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Ils se laisserent porter en direction du nord, vers la gare de Perdido. Ils tournaient lentement, revigores par cette presence urbaine massive, profane, en dessous d'eux, par ce lieu fecond, grouillant, tel qu'aucun de leurs semblables n'en avait jamais connu jusque la. Partout, le moindre secteur - ponts obscurs, hotels particuliers vieux de cinq siecles, bazars tortueux, entrepots de beton, tours, peniches d'habitation, taudis repugnants ..
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nouvelle-crobuzon
world-building
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China Miéville |
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You see what's going on," Dane said. Miserably he ran his hands over his head. "That is a picket line, and I am in trouble." "A picket? The cats and birds?" Dane nodded. "The familiars are on strike."
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China Miéville |
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Well, put simply, and as far as I understand it, they're egalitarian because they respect the individual so much, right? And you can't respect other people's individuality if you focus on your own individuality in a kind of abstract, isolated way. The point is that you are an individual inasmuch as you exist in a social matrix of others who respect your individuality and your right to make choices. That's concrete individuality: an individu..
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China Miéville |
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5c2a763
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Billy felt like a lid unsecured and banging in the wind.
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China Miéville |
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63bf932
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I admit defeat. I've been trying to present these events with a structure. I simply don't know how everything happened. Perhaps because I didn't pay proper attention, perhaps because it wasn't a narrative, but for whatever reasons, it doesn't want to be what I want to make it.
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China Miéville |
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23d70a3
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As in Kiev, so across the cities of Russia, among the dreaming rich.
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China Miéville |
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1c4ec0e
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In those late days of summer, as the right ruminated a cleansing, there flourished a millennial indulgence.
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China Miéville |
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3acd0ed
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There are parts where even individual trees are crosshatched, where Ul Qoman children and Besz children clamber past each other, each obeying their parents' whispered strictures to unsee the other.
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China Miéville |
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9759628
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In Paris you had to be ready to fight art and the Hellish--not to mention Nazis--so they labored under weapons for all eventualities.
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China Miéville |
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e9e6b9f
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susurrus
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China Miéville |
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An everyday Doomsayer in sandwich board abruptly walked away from what, over the last several days, had been his pitch, by the gates of a museum. The sign on his front was an oldschool Prophecy of the End. The one bobbing on his back read 'forget it.
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irony
doomsayer
prophet
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China Miéville |
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The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever written is written to be read and if some go unread that's only chance, failure, they're like grubs that die without changing.
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words
writing
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China Miéville |
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Fights are much taxonomised. They have been subject over centuries to a complex, exhaustive categoric imperative. Humans like nothing more than to pigeonhole the events & phenomena that punctuate their lives.
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China Miéville |
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d361823
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In the streets of Un Lun Dun: a group of a girl, a half ghost, a talking book, a piece of rubbish, and two living words was unusual but not very.
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un-lun-dun
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China Miéville |
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558fc25
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In North Pittman is a particularly striking theology. There, one church memorably teaches that if all the trains were to be still, together, for one moment, if there were no rails percussing the iron road, all human life would wink instantly out. Because such noises are the snoring, the sleep-breathing of a railsea world, & it is the rails that dream us. We do not dream the rails.
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dreams
iron-road
railsea
sleep-breathing
snoring
theology
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China Miéville |
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e676e94
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their officer. The acid and powder in the
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China Miéville |
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5bf5347
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I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.
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China |
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f3d2dd4
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I am often asked is [my work] science fiction or fantasy and my answer is usually 'Yes'.
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China Miéville |
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c502dde
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Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.
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China Miéville |
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34bf4da
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It's the first principle, isn't it? Whoever's arguing fiercest for violence is the cop.
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China Miéville |
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d9ae8f8
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This was not the time for rage but for politics and strategy.
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China Miéville |
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c9122fb
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You didn't know, but not knowing is no excuse.
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China Miéville |
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ec82a2c
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What if the chosen one misunderstands what he's been chosen for?
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China Miéville |
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a578da9
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Abomination from one perspective, it was advertising copy from another.
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China Miéville |
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45e4f9c
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You were sick of sentimentality, of the moralism, maneuvering, and malice that comes with it.
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China Miéville |
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ed18d46
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We know the axes on which we should judge, and age has never been one.
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China Miéville |
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321a916
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That was a salvo of something against something.
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China Miéville |
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5f48293
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Mercantile law ruled: let the buyer beware.
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China Miéville |
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f0777fb
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She was an outsider. Had left her sisters. Forgotten hive and moiety.
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China Miéville |
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She felt so alien, bowed under culture shock as crippling as migraine.
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China Miéville |
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061795a
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Neither dust nor light stirred. It was as if time had been bled dry and given up.
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China Miéville |
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2835c53
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I want to know everything, he says.
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China Miéville |
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e462148
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When the rich grow afraid, they get nasty. We say: A government for need not greed!
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China Miéville |
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4d41cc4
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Ori supposed there were as many unspeakable stories as there were men come back from war.
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China Miéville |
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0ddd197
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We're all racing," he said."Yeah, but some of us in the wrong direction."
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China Miéville |
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8d5c02c
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Throw something away and you declare it obsolete.
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China Miéville |
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0b21db1
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It had some allies. Believe me, there's nothing so terrible that someone won't support it.
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China Miéville |
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4b3ac7b
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There is no theology so desperate that you can't find it.
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China Miéville |
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f85ca86
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It is more foolish and childish to assume there is a conspiracy, or that there is not?
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China Miéville |
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abf03b0
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He tried to grin but it did not go well.
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China Miéville |
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4b6f609
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It should be illegal to be so much younger than me.
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China Miéville |
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feea943
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There are people out there who'd rather be tools than people.
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China Miéville |
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7bbc4d8
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London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.
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China Miéville |