Ian McDonald: Thing

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“She had not won a clean victory. Tinkering with time and history offended her political sensibilities. History was written in the stones. It was not a numinous thing to be tossed sparkling in the air to lie where it fell. She did not like to think of her life and world as a mere mutability of potentials.”

Ian McDonald book Desolation Road

Source: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 64 (p. 327).

Life , Lie , World , History

“Ghosts? Pah. We are the most substantial things in the world, the foundations of the present. We are memories.”

Ian McDonald book Desolation Road

Source: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 54 (p. 270).

World , Memory

“The closer they come to the object of desire the more reluctant they are to grasp it. The search is the thing. The process is the purpose. The final mystery can only be anticlimactic. The story is ended.”

Ian McDonald book The Dervish House

Source: The Dervish House (2010), Ch. 6, §2 (p. 207)

Search

“These songs were the true names of things, spoken by the soul, so easily buried under the little busynesses of everyman everyday.”

Ian McDonald book Desolation Road

Source: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 22 (p. 111).

Soul

“Legends should stay legends; otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history to legend.”

Ian McDonald book The Dervish House

Source: The Dervish House (2010), Ch. 3, §5 (p. 109)

Way , History , Nature