Clocks are the enemies of time... they are the gaolers of day and the turnkeys of night."
Tom Thumb
Orphan could no longer hear or see the shadows of the dead. He didn't think they had perished. Most likely they were hiding now, somewhere in this landscape of books.
Lavie TidharThey were all machines, he thought, just like La Mettrie had said in L'Homme Machine all those years ago. So he, Orphan, was a machine of flesh and blood, and Lucy, now, was made of something else, more complex perhaps- but they were the same and...
They were in love.
Sometimes that was enough.
For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a wild and savage tribe that fed on unwary travellers.
Lavie TidharTag: books librarians library
Life isn't a pulp novel, Joe, and death isn't either.
Lavie TidharTag: pulp
These were the facts. Facts were important. They separated fiction from reality, the tawdry world of Mike Longshott from the concrete spaces of Joe's world.
Lavie TidharTag: facts
Let go of Osama Bin Laden, let go of books where bombs go off and people die, let go of this war you have no scale for, that you don't understand.
Lavie TidharTag: scale
The fat man looked amused. "What on earth for?" he said. "I never have any contact with writers. If I do, they just keep pestering me about getting paid.
Lavie TidharTag: writers getting-paid
It was a war about fear, he thought, not figures on the ground. It was a war of narrative, a story of a war, and it grew in the telling.
Lavie TidharTag: war-of-narrative
Listen to this. A bomb goes off downtown and the police arrest the Easter bunny, Santa Claus, the tooth fairy and Osama Bin Laden. They put them in an identity parade and have a witness try to point out the perpetrator. Who does she pick?"
Joe said, "I don’t know."
"Osama Bin Laden," the taxi driver said. "Because the other three don’t exist.
Tag: existence
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