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“Weigh then your wealth, and judge if it’s more dear
To you than life. If not, your course is clear.”

Michael Shea book Nifft the Lean

Part 4, “The Goddess in Glass,” Chapter 10 (p. 285)
Nifft the Lean (1982)

Life , Wealth

““He’s here, of course, strictly through his own ambitious carelessness.”
“Prime flaws of youth, of course—but also its strengths, this carelessness and mbition.””

Michael Shea book Nifft the Lean

Part 3, Chapter 14 (p. 191)
Nifft the Lean (1982)

Youth

““You realize of course, Barnar, that it is simply not possible that we’re actually doing this?”
“I’ve come to the same comforting conclusion, old friend. Therefore let’s away—an impossibility can only do us an unreal sort of harm, after all.””

Michael Shea book Nifft the Lean

Part 3, Chapter 8 (p. 139)
Nifft the Lean (1982)

“For the past three years, young Wimfort had enjoyed so ample a competence from his parent, that he’d been able to buy his way deep into the mysteries of the arts of Power. He purchased no real understanding, of course, for that’s bought by the coin of toil and thought.”

Michael Shea book Nifft the Lean

Part 3, “The Fishing of the Demon-Sea,” Chapter 3 (p. 116)
Nifft the Lean (1982)

Art , Way , Understanding , Parent

“He’s here, of course, strictly through his own ambitious carelessness.”

Michael Shea book Nifft the Lean

“Prime flaws of youth, of course—but also its strengths, this carelessness and ambition.”
Part 3, Chapter 14 (p. 191)
Nifft the Lean (1982)

“You realize of course, Barnar, that it is simply not possible that we’re actually doing this?”

Michael Shea book Nifft the Lean

“I’ve come to the same comforting conclusion, old friend. Therefore let’s away—an impossibility can only do us an unreal sort of harm, after all.”
Part 3, Chapter 8 (p. 139)
Nifft the Lean (1982)