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A bromeliad extinct for so long that no one bothered to look for it anymore. A plant so rare even its name was gone. It was Sonali's prize. The passion plant with no name.
There was no mistaking the mysterious bromeliad, its inward-spiraling leaves forming a small black hole in the center. A mandala, Sonali had said, created by the plant world, about the mind of human beings. I had in my sights the very plant Sonali and Armand had spent so many years searching for.
Being an air plant, it did not
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― Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire
― Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire
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U tome je dakle stvar”, promrmljao je polupromrzli maršal oslonjen o hladni kamen balustrade savršeno svjestan svega velikoga, “kad razumijemo da je neko djelo ipak intimno, ex una persona, pa i ako je zažizana papazjanija misli nekom osobitom masom; raspaljena, ako masa i pali ljude na lomači naših misli, svejedno su to naše misli, a mi prepoznajemo, pa i sada pred treskavim bombama, da je svrha mase ideju razvodnjiti. I nema tako... široke, snažne, žilave ideje koliko ima široke i obične mase
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― Veliki pad
― Veliki pad
