In the end, having no compass for his desires, he yielded to his nature.
K.J. BishopTag: nature
Albo niczego nie można wybaczyć, albo nie ma nic do wybaczania.
K.J. BishopTag: akwaforta the-etched-city
Somewhere there are gardens where peacocks sing like nightingales, somewhere there are caravans of separated lovers traveling to meet each other; there are ruby fires on distant mountains, and blue comets that come in spring like sapphires in the black sky. If this is not so, meet me in the shameful yard, and we will plant a gallows tree, and swing like sad pendulums, never once touching.
K.J. BishopTag: weird surrealism
How long before we devise a means of telling horoscopes with gas lamps?
K.J. BishopTag: industrialisation horoscopes fortune-telling
The goodness of the world grew like moss in cracks, she thought. It grew, somehow, with hidden roots, nourished by something unseen.
K.J. BishopThere were no milestones in the Copper Country. Often a traveler could only measure the progress of a journey by the time it took to get from each spoiled or broken thing to the next: a half-day’s walk from a dry well to the muzzle of a cannon poking out of a sand-slope, two hours to reach the skeletons of a man and a mule. The land was losing its battle with time. Ancient and exhausted, it visited decrepitude on everything within its bounds, as though out of spleen.
K.J. BishopTag: fantasy landscape opening-paragraph
The wisdom which is now conventional claims that light creates shadows. But the facts are otherwise. Darkness came first and is infinitely older and more enduring than light. Light borrows a little space; then it dies or moves on, and the dark exists again as if it had never been disturbed.
K.J. BishopTobacco Will Slowly and Surely Kill You." And so will time, Gwynn thought. But if you want the job done quickly, professionals recommend bullet.
K.J. BishopYou see yourself as something of a champion of the poor, don't you?" "No, just their doctor.
K.J. BishopTag: option-for-the-poor
Evil flourishes because the good aren't good enough," see murmured. "And sometimes the good just have bad days.
K.J. BishopTag: good-and-evil
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