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“This was not the time for rage but for politics and strategy.”

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China Miéville livre The Tain

The Tain (p. 252)
Short Fiction, Looking for Jake (2005)

“The other, more nebulous, but very strong influence of RPGs was the weird fetish for systematization, the way everything is reduced to “game stats.””

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China Miéville

If you take something like Cthulhu in Lovecraft, for example, it is completely incomprehensible and beyond all human categorization. But in the game Call of Cthulhu, you see Cthulhu’s “strength,” “dexterity,” and so on, carefully expressed numerically. There’s something superheroically banalifying about that approach to the fantastic. On one level it misses the point entirely, but I must admit it appeals to me in its application of some weirdly misplaced rigor onto the fantastic: it’s a kind of exaggeratedly precise approach to secondary world creation.

Interview with Joan Gordon http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/mievilleinterview.htm

“Their minds were sudden merchants: metaphor, like money, equalised the incommensurable.”

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China Miéville Embassytown

Source: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 27 (p. 312)

“I don’t want to be a simile anymore, I want to be a metaphor.”

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China Miéville Embassytown

Source: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 24 (p. 296)

“There wasn’t even any reasoning. Secrecy was just a bureaucrats’ reflex.”

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China Miéville Embassytown

Source: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 22 (p. 276)

“What theology that would have been, a god self-worshipping, a drug addicted to itself.”

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China Miéville Embassytown

Source: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 18 (p. 239)

“It wasn’t a city anymore, it was a collection of broken places separated by war without politics or acquisition so not war at all really but something more pathological.”

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China Miéville Embassytown

Source: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 18 (p. 238)

“I suppose there were other institutions in Embassytown where the dynamic of the quotidian sustained—some hospitals, perhaps some schools, perhaps houses where shiftparents most deeply loved the children. Whenever any society dies there must be heroes whose fightback is to not change.”

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China Miéville Embassytown

Source: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 15 (p. 213)

“I suspect there was a power struggle in the Embassy, that some would have tried, out of habit, without rationale, to wall up information. They didn’t win.”

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China Miéville Embassytown

Source: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 10 (p. 172)

“A classic unspoken agreement among escapees from a small town: don’t look back, don’t be each other’s anchors, no nostalgia. I wasn’t expecting any of them to return.”

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China Miéville Embassytown

Source: Embassytown (2011), Chapter “Formerly, 1” (p. 53)

“A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.”

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China Miéville Embassytown

Source: “And there aren’t any.”
“Mmm,” I said. “Awkward.”
“That’s defeatist talk. I’ll cobble something together. A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.”
Source: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 0.3 (p. 37)