“But then, our way is the natural way ordained by god herself, whereas I have no idea whose set of social accidents and economic anomalies have contoured the ways of your odd and awkward land.”

— Samuel R. Delany , book Tales of Nevèrÿon

Section 2 (p. 177)
Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979)

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