“Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.”
J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop
"What Think You of the Cross?", p. 276
Startling Questions (1853)
“It’s very nearly 1989 but it’s midnight in the Dark Ages just the thickness of a book away, the thickness of a skull away; just the turn of a page away.”
“Piece” (p. 74)
Short fiction, The State of the Art (1991)
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page 323
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Alan Grayson (1958) American politician
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Source: My Side of the Mountain
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uma escuridão parada à espera, espessa e silenciosa como o fundo do mar
Source: All the Names (1997), p. 107
Samuel R. Delany book The Einstein Intersection
Section 13 (closing words)
The Einstein Intersection (1967)