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  1. Tad Williams _ Mountain of Black Glass

    Order. I must find some order. If the universe has none, or at least none we can discern, well, then it is our job to give it some. I have always believed that.
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  2. Tad Williams _ Mountain of Black Glass

    Even the most unpleasant inhabitants of the Edwin Meese Gardens housing project had never tried to shove a basilisk into Ramsey's codpiece.
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  3. Tad Williams _ Mountain of Black Glass

    Code Delphi. Hmmm. My choice of a code phrase to mark out these entries begins to seem . . . rather Delphic. In any case
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  4. Tad Williams _ Mountain of Black Glass

    I asked that goddess for help, and all we got were these stupid monkeys.
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  5. Tad Williams _ Mountain of Black Glass

    You were not required to study the Grail process, Ms. Dedoblanco, but I would have thought it worth your while." Wells frowned.
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  6. Tad Williams _ Mountain of Black Glass

    And here comes The Aeneid, right on schedule," Martine said. Paul looked at her, but if it was a joke, she wasn't smiling.
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  7. Tad Williams _ Mountain of Black Glass

    Strip off the branches and make the logs smooth," the quail said in the voice of a mischievous girl-child. "Didn't your mother and father teach you anything?" Paul stared. It was not the strangest thing he had encountered, but it was still a bit surprising. "Who are you?" She made a little chirping sound of amusement. "A quail! What do I look like?" He nodded his head, conceding the point. "And you know how to build a raft?" "Better than you do, it seems. It's a good thing Calypso herself brought you here, because you didn't even ask permission from the dryads before you chopped down their trees, and they'll all have to find new homes now."
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  8. Tad Williams _ Mountain of Black Glass

    His virtual home showed none of the ostentation of others in the Brotherhood, no Gothic-fortress-perched-on-impossible-cliffs or Caligulean excesses of decor {usually accompanied by an equally Caligulean want of decorum.}
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  9. Tad Williams _ Mountain of Black Glass

    Our lives aren't even about doing real things most of the time. We think and talk about people we've never met, pretend to visit places we've never actually been, to discuss things that are just names as though they were as real as rocks or animals or something. Information Age. Hell it's the Imagination Age. We're living in our own minds.No, she decided as the plane began its steep descent, really we're living in other people's minds.
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  10. Tad Williams _ Mountain of Black Glass

    Every man is the hero of his own song.
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