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Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing.
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Long live the new flesh!
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It's like having a small piece of defrosting liver pressed against you.
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But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.
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Cease to Hope posted:How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails. Is it true that humans have six legs?
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It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.
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Parahexavoctal posted:Is it true that humans have six legs? (apparently Vinge died the day after I posted this.)
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"But I must admit," he added with a queer laugh, "that I hoped you would take me for my own sake."
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Didn't you hear I come in six-packs!
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I thought you’d be as pleased and excited as I am. It’s a misunderstanding, isn’t it?
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No tampering with the structure to make it more docile, and no growth acceleration.
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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
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I’m just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe.
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Could this be the work of terrorists?
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Did Sephiroth... do this?
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All of our history... our art and science... All to meet the needs of that... beast.
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She knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
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Armor won't help the heart stay sharp!
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Nothing would ever change; nothing new could ever be expected. It had to end, and it did.
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"Everyone has -- technical secrets. You have yours; I have mine. You should read my book and accept it on face value, just as I accept what I see -" Again he pointed at her with his glass. "Without inquiring if it's genuine underneath."
Cease to Hope fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Apr 2, 2025 |
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It's taking power from the worlds within the painting. It took form and expression from the surrealist world and each new level gives it something else it needs. It's feeding on the power of ideas.
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Man is a creature of sorrow and fault, and ever will be.
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I bent my wookie.
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I'll only wind up dead this way, knowing very little, and getting that little fragment wrong too.
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On the drive back to the MUDO building, one thought kept returning to him. There was just that one possibility that he could not face. Everything else could be handled. Arrangements could be made. But- Suppose Ragle was becoming sane again?
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It is possible to survive this but not unaltered
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All you have is what you are, and what you give.
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The hasty stroke goes oft astray.
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There are things you should be noticing, here. Things that are missing, and conspicuous by their absence.
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The drum pulse quickened, and she bounced with it, her dark hair wild around the blank silver lenses, her mouth thin, lips taut with concentration.
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This is no Zaku, boy!
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I came here to laugh at you.
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Give him a tumble, they come home in easy-to-carry sections.
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So I guess the moral of that is, stay away from guys looking the same as us.
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You will carry these men with you through all the nights of your life.
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"Was that the last thing in the world he ever did?" "I think so. I'm so sorry." "It's the thing I love most in the world too," Kristen said, after some time had passed.
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There is blood on my hands; how long till it lies on my heart?
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The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.
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Cease to Hope posted:There is blood on my hands; how long till it lies on my heart? You would die on the backs of others.
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Encounters with strangers usually lead to nothing unless both people are willing to take a risk.
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