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‘As I suggested, gossip is the most valuable currency there is up here. You will soon be trading in it yourself.’
The natural world was a tightly integrated web, and every time humans messed with it, there were as many unintended consequences as there were intentional. But that was a lesson nobody ever seemed to learn.
‘I believe only in things I can apprehend with my own imperfect senses,’ I answered, ‘though their very imperfection suggests I keep an open mind.’
‘If you reduce people to savage circumstance,’ I said, ‘then savagery may indeed erupt.’
‘I think a bit of Mr Hyde lives in everyone, and that’s why the story resonates as it does.’
A candlelit chandelier could make the simplest repast appear a banquet, while electricity rendered everything unappetizingly vivid.
but regardless of his constitution, a man needs his whiskey and his cigars, or what’s the point of living at all?
‘Why would you not put such abilities as you have towards the writing of works meant to elevate the soul, to teach morality, and to raise the spirits of your audience? If you have it within your powers to summon the devil, why not summon angels instead?’
