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I don't even remember buying this. I don't know where it came from, but it's probably one of those freebies I grab at 3 am when I'm half asleep.

We’re the ones who the world’s going to look to in the twenty-first century: the smart, liberal, secular technocrats who come out of the world’s best schools and want to do stuff, and make stuff and find stuff out. And, I’ll tell you what, it’s right that they should look to us, because we actually are the good guys.’

*cough* BULLSHIT *cough*

'...but Boca wasn’t all bad, for it was also Boca who caused the trees to grow and filled the flowers with milk, a substance that would be dangerous except that Iya purified it for her human followers, just so long as the right words were spoken to her in one of the many Mundino rituals...' Terribly long run-on sentence. But Mr. Beckett is allowed some infodump with such exquisite worldbuilding.

'Beneath the statue of Iya and in front of the customary mural of the corpse servants, Hyacinth recorded on to cassettes their explanations of the complicated cosmology of the Delta, and how Iya helped the human beings protect themselves and their animals against the duendes, whose chief, Boca, with her many arms and eyes that pointed in every direction, waited at the bottom of the world and fed on souls'