“Day dawned, as day generally does, in so spectacular a manner as to seem rather show-offy were it to be encountered among any less significant meteorological phenomena.”

—  Lin Carter, book The Wizard of Zao

Source: The Wizard of Zao (1978), Chapter 10 (p. 125)

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