You’re all so obsessed with other worlds, you’re so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you’ve never bothered to figure out what’s going on here!
Lev GrossmanTags: contentment
Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.
Lev GrossmanThough the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.
Lev GrossmanTags: self-esteem worth
You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.
Lev GrossmanYou’re saying the gods don’t have free will.”
“The power to make mistakes,” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals.
A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.”
“In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.
Tags: gods profundity
Forget everything you ordinarily associate with religious study. Strip away all the reverence and the awe and the art and the philosophy of it. Treat the subject coldly. Imagine yourself to be a theologist, but a special kind of theologist, one who studies gods the way an entomologist studies insects. Take as your dataset the entirety of world mythology and treat it as a collection of field observations and statistics pertaining to a hypothetical species: the god. Proceed from there.
Lev GrossmanTags: theology science-vs-religion
A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it.
Lev GrossmanIt was strange to be naked in front of anybody. It was like that cold water out there in the bay: scary, you didn’t think you could stand it, but then you plunged in and pretty soon you got used to it. There was enough hiding in life. Sometimes you just wanted to show somebody your tits.
Lev GrossmanGenuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all.
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