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- At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.
- The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day…
- The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this…
- And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. At times they come back from the ice more than seven decades later and are…
- Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will…
- It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on…
- The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors…
- I feel more and more as if time did not exist at all... only various spaces interlocking according to the rules of a higher form…
- It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.
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