Embassytown
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Read between February 14 - March 12, 2014
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Look instead at a map of the immer. Such a big and tidal quiddity.
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A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.”
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It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It’s only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.
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Building-things were coming down and being replaced. Construction sites like combined slaughterhouses, puppy farms and quarries.
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These eisteddfods of mendacity had not existed—how could they?—before we Terre came.
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What theology that would have been, a god self-worshipping, a drug addicted to itself.
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a narcocracy of language.
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“We’re insane, to them: we tell the truth with lies.”
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I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before.