There are places that can only be found by invitation-Steven Erikson
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The gradual realization of texture and position. The ancient desire to return. Nothing will change in an hour. In the next scripted seconds, the world might implode.
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From where I sit, I see the lines not spreading infinitely outward, but as a barrier of wood and steel and stone and beyond it an abyss of cliff and the perpetual slither of the sea
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But I will remember the fading, the way the light rose and fell in a silent swing. Can I remember any of what I saw? Such sights rearrange themselves.
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I built on the sand
And it tumbled down,
I built on a rock
And it tumbled down.
Now when I build, I shall begin
With the smoke from the chimney
-Leopold Staff