“I shall endeavor to turn dross to purest Metal Absolute: in short, to teach you something.”

—  Tad Williams

Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 4, “Cricket Cage” (p. 41).

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