Pipes filled with brine that spied on the inhabitants of buildings watching, listening, hunting. You might obscure the attention of the Londonmancers, with the complicity of a treacherous borough, with strikebreaking hexes strong enough: but nothing could stay hidden from an inquisitive sea.
China MiévilleVirgina Woolf versus Edward Lear."
"Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?"
"I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out of fidelity to the letter L. Partly because given the choice between nonsense and boojy wittering you blatantly have to choose nonsense.
Tags: literary-criticism virginia-woolf king-lear nonsense
History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.
China MiévilleTags: history
Do please,” said Captain Naphi, “expedite this journey relevance-ward.
China MiévilleThe light was going: some cloud cover arriving, as if summoned by drama.
China MiévilleTags: simile setting well-written prose-stylist
How do you...? What is it you're doing?" he said to Vardy as the man took a breath, mid-insight. What do you call that? Billy thought. That reconstitutitive intelligence, berserker meme-splicing, seeing in nothings first patterns, then correspondence, then causality and dissident sense.
Vardy even smiled. "Paranoid," he said. "Theology.
Tags: theology
It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar.
China MiévilleTags: persuasion social-anthropology
Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.
China MiévilleTags: fortune-telling
You got to be worried when they're agreeing about anything," she said. "Prophets. That's the last bloody thing you want prophets to do.
China MiévilleTags: prophets
Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists.
China MiévilleTags: psychology thuggery thugs criminal-minds
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