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The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing.

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Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.

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Glen Cook

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Born: July 9, 1944 (age 82)
Bio: Glen Charles Cook is a contemporary American science fiction and fantasy writer, best known for The Black Company and Garrett P.I. fantasy series.
Known for:
  1. The Black Company (1984)
  2. Garrett P.I. (2013)
  3. Shadows Linger (1984)
  4. The White Rose (1985)
  5. Shadow Games (1989)
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