"Then was the labor of Tinuviel begun, and though she labored with the deftness of an Elf long was the spinning and longer weaving still, and did any come and hail her from below she bid them gone, saying: 'I am abed, and desire only to sleep,' and Dairon was much amazed, and called often up to her, but she did not answer."
"The name Dolius suggests "crafty" or "deceitful"; the poem shows us why dishonesty is the most essential survival tool for the "good" slave."
"Sometimes these shards of power go unnoticed and boil away into nothing over time." - Bestiary 6
Sorry, folks, I forgot to mention three posts up that my last was from Beren and Luthien, obviously by Tolkien.
"And although she had not tried to meet their eyes, the first folk she passed on her way to the gate did look her over slowly and mistrustfully, but she realized after a moment that this man and woman were doing so only because most of the other travelers were dressed and clean for market: Briony was a dirty stranger, not a regular stranger."
Tad Williams, Shadowplay
She asks the mountains for news of him, only to be told that "The Bison" has led him (that is, his shade) into the mountains, which is to say into the realm of the dead, for to the Sumerians k u r, "the mountains," represented Hades.
The Treasures of Darkness
(Note, Page 55 was a long poetic quote without sentence divisions, so I turned back a page.)
Alyssa P. Hacker complains we did extra work writing `expmod`.
--Gerald Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Porgrams
Trans-Pacific Telegraphy
- Thank you for joining the expedition STOP
- Please join me in Lima STOP
- Have booked you room at Hotel Maury STOP
- Meet 18 March at 7 pm at Bar Cordano, Jiron Ancash 202, Distrito de Lima STOP
- Augustus Larkin
Masks of Nyarlathotep p. 54, Omnibus PDF for 7th Edition Call of Cthulhu
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The Consensus (for all nine) was no.
-- Jeffrey Toobin, The Oath
Only this much seems necessary by way of introduction and advance information: that there are two stems of human knowledge, namely sensibility and understanding, which perhaps spring from a common root unknown to us.
- Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant (Chapter: Introduction)
Thread resurrection time!
"Radiating from the pyramid, like the spokes of a wheel, there are to be forty grand avenues of approach, each thirty-five miles long, and each fenced on both sides by skull-less skeletons standing a yard and a half apart and festooned together in line by short chains stretching from wrist to wrist and attached to tried and true old handcuffs stamped with my private trademark, a crucifix and butcher-knife crossed, with motto " By this sign we prosper"; each osseous fence to consist of 200,000 skeletons on a side, which is 400,000 to each avenue."
King Leopold's Soliloquy, Mark Twain (1905).
"I did not know you read theology, Foix."
Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold
I put all these away as tales and fables
And as occasions of the eternal fire.
Digenes Akrites (Mavrogordatos's translation with facing-page Greek and English)
"I'm good at playing videogames, Mom," I said, "not at making them."
Armada, Ernest Cline
It was a strategic victory as bloodless for the defeated as for the
victor -- and the less men slain on the other side, the more potential
adherents and recruits for Trump.
Strategy, Hart