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“When grief for fiction’s idle words More real than human life appears, Reflect that life itself’s a dream And do not mock the reader’s tears.”
― The Story of the Stone: The Dreamer Wakes
― The Story of the Stone: The Dreamer Wakes
“The Minnow
If I press
on its head,
the eyes
will come out
like stars.
The ripples
it makes
can move
the moon.”
― The Singing Knives
If I press
on its head,
the eyes
will come out
like stars.
The ripples
it makes
can move
the moon.”
― The Singing Knives
“the trouble with the people on this planet is they refuse to think they refuse to believe anything except what they know”
― Prophetika Book One
― Prophetika Book One
“people undertake some new task not because of a challenge, but because of the assumed absence of a challenge because the task looks easy…and then, once they are stuck with it, they have willy-nilly to overcome the unsuspected difficulties—and sometimes they even succeed.”
― Development Projects Observed
― Development Projects Observed
“Material life, of course, presents itself to us in the anecdotal form of thousands and thousands of assorted facts. Can we call these events? No: to do so would be to inflate their importance, to grant them a significance they never had. That the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian ate with his fingers from the dishes at a banquet (as we can see from a drawing) is an everyday detail, not an event. So is the story about the bandit Cartouche, on the point of execution, preferring a glass of wine to the coffee he was offered. This is the dust of history, microhistory in the same sense that Georges Gurvitch talks about micro-sociology: little facts which do, it is true, by indefinite repetition, add up to form linked chains. Each of them represents the thousands of others that have crossed the silent depths of time and endured.”
― Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol 2: The Wheels of Commerce
― Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol 2: The Wheels of Commerce
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