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The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

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Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all ...more

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I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats.

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Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the R...more

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…the known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow.

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Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered each other at Haworth House in ...more

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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.