A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan #1)
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but why would he ever have been in the shower of the ezuazuacat Nineteen Adze?
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Oh sweetie
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Tea on Lsel Station was not nearly so formal: tea drinkers had tea bags and mugs and microwaves to heat the water. Mahit drank coffee, when she drank stimulants at all, which was the same process except with freeze-dried coffee grounds instead of the tea bag.
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Oh they are barbarians
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THE problem with sending messages was that people responded to them, which meant one had to write more messages in reply.
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Yskandr has said something to him which is almost right, but just wrong enough that his natural desire to inform and educate a barbarian is going to override his much more prudent wish to keep his new technology safely under wraps.
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The thing which has killed them is vast, and shaped like a wheel within a wheel within a wheel;
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Biblical angels you say?
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She just needed to—not think. Or, to think, but to keep acting while she thought.
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Thought again of the City as an algorithm: considered, for the first time clearly, that no algorithm was innocent of its designers. It couldn’t be. There was an originating purpose for an algorithm, however distant in its past—a reason some human person made it, even if it had evolved and folded in on itself and transformed.
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Big mood here