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-Authority? I claim nothing less than the ultimate authority, Ultimate to mean not just greatest, but also in its root etymological sense of final. Our final authority is issue of the authority of life over death, truth over lies. And we derive it not organically but negatively. By that I mean that whenever illegitimate power is exercised, the univ
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She reads Thoreau over wood fires at night.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Silk (I mean the real Silk)
Gene Wolfe • On Blue's Waters
This premonition of violence made little rational sense, and yet it came to me too easily, almost as if placed in my mind by outside forces.
Jeff VanderMeer • Annihilation: A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy)
“He held the power of Preservation and wielded it. He is the sole man ever to have done so!
Brandon Sanderson • The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn
Chapter Eleven
Dan Simmons • Song of Kali
That’s how myths work. Macduff, and Lady Macbeth.