“I don’t know how the Sphinx gave me the ability to think and speak as I do, or how I came to inhabit this body. I suspect it involved her medium, but she has never told the details of my rebirth.” Voleta gazed at him with fresher eyes. “I still don’t understand why you’d say you were a mistake. I think you’re actually rather marvelous, I mean other than your personality.” “It’s possible, I think, to be so many things at once that you’re practically nothing at all. If you crush a mountain and spread it across a continent, it doesn’t make little mountains; it just vanishes into dust.” Byron
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