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"Pain is a function of nerves. Pain comes as light comes to the eyes. Effort comes from the muscles, not from nerves."

"When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature's wants to direct him to that place."

"Here I am; here I remain."

"The Good Neighbors" is a tremendously sad story that ends too abruptly on an odd note

This human computer sequence is incredible

God dang it, Dr. Talos.

OH JEEZ IT'S SZETH

"By the blinking of my eyes, something wicked this way dies"

"Poison goes where poison's welcome"

I love Death

"The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate"

It
ONLY
KILLS
M O N S T E R S

OLD GODS DO NEW JOBS.

The Death of Rats: All Nonsense

Susan Sto Helit: No Time for Your Nonsense

This is one of those books that I can't help but read sections of out loud, even when I'm alone. God bless this book

Terry comes out of the gate SWINGING on this one. Good good first page.

WHAT THE FUCK, DIONYSUS

Hot damn, Terry. The hills themselves.

OKAY, THAT DID IT THE WASPS LINE I LOST IT 5 STAR LINE THAT

Funny book, this.

Ooooo, Simone Weil is going on the reading list now

Finally coming back to this

"Tir Nani Ogg," Terry, oh my God

GRANNY

Terry, you bastard, I was planning to sleep tonight!

"Here, this knife will not be detected by any magnetic doors. Which are totally a thing in this world, apparently, despite never being mentioned before now. Also, I, the author, thought it was a good idea to use the phrase 'mano a mano' in a fantasy world that doesn't even have a Spanish analogue." This book has done absolutely nothing to live up to its hype

The next 450 pages have a lot of work to do explaining why this book is so well lauded

It's really something, when an author can write a fight with a giant snake or the sudden appearance of the gods themselves and have it be incredibly humdrum