“So he believes. The truth may be more…complex.”

— Clive Barker , book Weaveworld

Part Eleven “The Dream Season”, Chapter iv “The Shrine of the Mortalities”, Section 3 (p. 494)
Weaveworld (1987), BOOK THREE: OUT OF THE EMPTY QUARTER

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