Then the true true is diff'rent to the seemin' true? said I.
Yay, an' it usually is, I mem'ry Meronym sain', an' that's why true true is presher'n'rarer'n diamonds
See, I thinked, Meronym knows a lot 'bout Smart an' life but Valleysmen know more 'bout death.
David MitchellSo Wise Man summ'ned Crow an' say-soed him these words: Fly across the crazed'n'jiffyin' ocean to the Mighty Volcano, an' on it's foresty slopes, find a long stick. Pick up that stick in your beak an' fl into that Mighty Volcano's mouth an' dip it in the lake o' flames what bubble'n'spit in that fiery place. Then bring the burnin' stick back here to Panama so humans'll mem'ry fire once more an' mem'ry back its makin
David MitchellI got a six'n'six so maybe my luck was healin', so I thinked, fool o' fate what I am, yay, what we all are.
David MitchellYay, when it came to faces, pretty lies was better'n scabbin' true
David MitchellAs Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.
David MitchellSulkers Binge on lonely fantasies.
David MitchellPoor England. Too much history for its acreage. Years grow inwards here, like my toenails.
David MitchellOaks live for six hundred years. Two hundred to grow, two hundred to live, two hundred to die.
David MitchellThe reductio ad absurdum of M.D.'s view, I argued, was that science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilization drives itself to extinction. M.D. embraced my objection with mordant glee. 'Precisely. Our will to power, our science, and those v. faculties that elevated us from apes, to saves, to modern man, are the same faculties that'll snuff out Homo Sapiens before this century is out! You'll probably live to see it happen, you fortunate son. What a symphonic crescendo that'll be, eh?
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