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A forest fire was making its way along the tinderbox ridges above them, flaring and shimmering against the overcast like the northern lights. Cold as ...more

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Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed.

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The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity. But my attitude toward...more

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Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing out the world which they encountered and leaving wha...more

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I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said.I know you didn't.I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of.I know it. There's hard less...more

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What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

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Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.You forget some things, dont you?Y...more

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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class...more

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He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter ...more

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Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

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His mind was betraying him. Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep.

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Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimp...more