Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2)

by Neil Gaiman

So…a long time ago,” he began, “Tiger had the stories. All the stories there ever were was Tiger stories, all the songs were Tiger songs,

Ain’t no gentleness in Tiger stories, no tricksiness, and no peace.”

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don’t have their own song.

Anansi

The stories people told became Anansi stories.

“Now, Anansi stories, they have wit and trickery and wisdom.

Now they’re starting to think their way out of problems—sometimes thinking their way into worse problems.

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SPIDER

Simile ouch

Simile extended

ROSIE’S MOTHER,

Fat Charlie.

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Benjamin Higgler.

information conduits

coconut palms and cellular telephones ought to be mutually exclusive,

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next time, you should bring the lime”)

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story.

Carol,

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the sensible cop stopped pointing out the sheer ill-considered madness of what she was doing.

That was because it was drowned out by another voice. “Evildoers beware!” it sang. “Beware! Take care! Evildoers everywhere!”

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SPIDER

A white woman

another duppy.

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if they expect me to turn the other cheek they have several other thinks coming.

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Banquo-at-the-Feast

Haha Macbeth, III.4. https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/macbeth/read/3/4/

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and taste

Rosie’s story of the raven who saved the man from the mountain lion.

And then the story reshaped itself,

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There are, as Fat Charlie once imagined, many kinds of silences.

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GRAHAME COATS

haha it was! Question

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