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I don’t know what I had felt till then. Perhaps just awe of his splendid anger. The living chick in the shell has known no other world. Through the wall comes a whiteness, but he does not know it is light. Yet he taps at the white wall, not
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“I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I.”
― Timequake
― Timequake

“...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.”
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“I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King.
And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.”
― The Persian Boy
And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.”
― The Persian Boy

“All shall love me and despair.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring

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