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Books Undone But the emptiness has the value and the appearance of plenty. One way of getting is not looking, one way of having is not asking and only believing that the silence I believe to be inside me is the answer to my—to my mystery. Mystery. …
Books Undone Within a year there were fires on the ridges and deranged chanting. […] He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it. This stark quote …
Language Makes Horror Bearable: The Linguistics Behind Tender is The Flesh “His brain warns him that there are words that cover up the world. Words that are convenient, hygienic. Legal.” This is the hidden premise behind a layered …
Scarcity Makes Status: What Dune and Blade Runner Reveal About Prestige My job requires it, he thought, scraping bottom. Prestige. We couldn’t go on with the electric sheep any longer; it sapped my morale. Maybe I can tell her that, he decided. …
“No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.” This line cuts against everything modern storytelling has trained us to crave: saviours, chosen ones, and destiny confused with …
“Language was never possible. We never spoke in one voice.” This line captures just a fraction of the novel’s daring ideas about how we speak and how we think. I’m talking about the book that Ursula K. Le Guin once called …
