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Paama sat up slowly, moving as cautiously as if facing a lion who had just declared his intention not to pounce, but to have a friendly chat instead.
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Ansige's outer appearance could be deceptive, but, given enough time, he let everyone know who and what he was.
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Let me tell you, I have seen men who are trying to find themselves, and I have seen men who are trying to lose themselves, but rare indeed is the man who knows exactly who he is and where he is at.
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It was a common characteristic among the warriors—no fear of death, and only pride for their scars, but little thought of all that could happen in between those two extremes.
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Ansige unreeled the tale of his tribulations, thoroughly ransacking the truth and then dipping into the bag of embellishment and sprinkling with a free hand.
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Women fell into that category of fantasies and dreams that worked well when unfulfilled but presented all kinds of problems when brought out into the real world of trial and failure.
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His mother had been the daughter of a minor chief, and she had carefully instilled in Ansige an understanding of the importance of importance.
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Chaos was a far subtler force than most people realised. It would be so easy to sense if it threw off thunderbolts or sent barely sensed thrummings through the fabric of reality, but it was nothing more than the possible made probable. It did not break or bend any laws of nature or tip the balance of the universe.
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Getting information out of them was like extracting gold from ore—a lot of labour and time, and why bother to do it when you know there's a store just around the corner?
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That was the nature of chaos; its effects spanned time in ways that were not always immediately discernible, not even by beings outside of time.
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Never? he said, dismayed.
Never, she reiterated firmly.
He nodded, pretending to be resigned, but secretly he thought that there were always ways to get around never.
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Names are very important for humans, aren't they? How do I translate for you the name of this town as it seems to me, the true name that tells of its history and people and lands and weather and... everything?
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In the beginning, God created human beings, which is to say God put the ingredients together, embedded the instructions for building on the template, and put it all into four separate eggs marked 'Some Assembly Required.'
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All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.
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Remember your ancestors, dream of your descendants and work hard while you're living.
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Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.
Alice Cary
Karen Lord
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Born:
May 22, 1968
(age 56)
Bio:
Karen Lord is a Barbadian writer of speculative fiction.
Known for:
The Best of all Possible Worlds (2013)
Redemption in Indigo (2010)
The Galaxy Game (2014)
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