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John John said: " I enjoyed this far more than I anticipated. I like Cosmic Marvel but got my fill after Annhiliation and its various sequels

This largely leaves the deity-class level characters out of the story and focuses on the various galactic empires. What I enjoy
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Lance Olsen
“For the last fifty years or so, The Novel’s demise has been broadcast on an almost weekly basis. Yet it strikes me that whatever happens, however else the geography of the imagination might modify in the future in, say, the digital ether, The Novel will continue to survive for some long time to come because it is able to investigate and cherish two things that film, music, painting, dance, architecture, drama, podcasts, cellphone exchanges, and even poetry can’t in a lush, protracted mode. The first is the intricacy and beauty of language—especially the polyphonic qualities of it to which Bakhtin first drew our attention. And the second is human consciousness. What other art form allows one to feel we are entering and inhabiting another mind for hundreds of pages and several weeks on end?”
Lance Olsen

Colson Whitehead
“Q: Why write about slavery? Haven’t we had enough stories about slavery? Why do we need another one?

A: I could have written about upper middle class white people who feel sad sometimes, but there’s a lot of competition.”
Colson Whitehead

James Joyce
“—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?

—I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?”
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Laurent Binet
“The homosexuals are the new Jesuits.”
Laurent Binet, The 7th Function of Language

Laurent Binet
“What would you do if you ruled the world?” The gigolo replied that he would abolish all laws. Barthes said: “Even grammar?”
Laurent Binet, The Seventh Function of Language

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