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That night Wichtig learned the name of the man widely considered to be the Greatest Swordsman in these parts: GroBe Klinge.
The hand leaked life as meaning was plucked. Putrefaction clutched love and was thrown to the midden. —HALBER TOD, COTARDIST POET
Bedeckt saw no way a man-made god could be any better than one coming to be in the old way. Whatever the old way was. At least the old gods seemed largely uninterested in messing directly with man or his works. Sure, they embroiled men in the occasional holy war, but most of the world’s great tragedies could be laid squarely at humanity’s feet.
Knowledge didn’t set her free; it more clearly displayed the true depth of her prison.
Theory, Aufschlag suddenly thought, is all fine and good until it’s faced with real life.
Damn this cursed sanity. How is being a helpless prisoner of reality sane? —GEISTIG GESUND
Stehlen’s faltering smile returned. “Do you like my hair?” Bedeckt took the coward’s way out and lost consciousness.
Neidrig loomed close and the Slaver was vibrating like aspic in an earthquake.
He’d saved both Stehlen and Wichtig’s lives. He thought about Wichtig’s endless attempts to manipulate him since. To hells with them. Bedeckt turned and fled.
You can lead a horse to water, but drowning it is surprisingly difficult. —HOFFNUNGSLOS
He said I would never know what tender emotions lurked hidden beneath his fragile sanity. So I peeled him like a grape. He was right. I still don’t know. —WAHNSINNIG GEMAHLIN, OTRAALMA
“They might kill us,” pointed out Vollk. “But we’re already dead.” “In my experience,” said Vollk, “there’s always more death.”
They wanted death as much as they wanted to kill the scarred old man for opening their eyes. There’s a lesson here, thought Gehirn as control fled. No one thanks you for showing them the light.
What I want to know is what happens when you are killed in the Afterdeath? Is there an Afterafterdeath? How long does this go on? Who dreamed this insanity? —EINSAM GESCHICHTENERZÄHLER
