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 Miéville


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Virgina 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.

China Miéville

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History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.

China Miéville

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Do please,” said Captain Naphi, “expedite this journey relevance-ward.

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The light was going: some cloud cover arriving, as if summoned by drama.

China Miéville

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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.

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It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar.

China Miéville

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Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.

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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.

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Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists.

China Miéville

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