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The few Precursor artefacts in alarmed and guarded bell jars that punctuate the passages are different. They are specific, but opaque. I glanced at some as I left: a sag-breasted Venus with a ridge where gears or a lever might sit; a crude metal wasp discoloured by centuries; a basalt die. Below each one a caption offered guesses.
cack-handed
Anyway, when she tells me all that, yes, I got shirty.
schwa-staccatoed-sinuous and throaty swallowing.
Its barrel encased, muzzled in some dramatic silencer.
To find an outlet for what she stole at his behest, for the invented benefit of Orciny.
what does this mean?
They were fired with jingo bravery.
good line but sounds dumb
found his weapon. It was heavy, its silencer almost organic-looking, like something phlegmy coating the muzzle.
this is just horrible
He walked with equipoise, possibly in either city. Schrödinger’s pedestrian.
i feel he has waited the whole book to use this line
That gait. Strange, impossible. Not properly describable, but to anyone used to the physical vernaculars of Besźel and Ul Qoma, it was rootless and untethered, purposeful and without a country.
nope
