“Sybil had an unreal, larger-than-life feeling... as if she were a person in a book.”
Rudy Rucker (1946) American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
Source: The Sex Sphere (1983), p. 103
“They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?”
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
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