“But as soon as any of us dies, there is only the monster left. What I had been pursuing was not Belham but the monster called Belham. And what my whole journey had taught me was precisely what sort of monster it was: it was made, as all such monsters are, of contradiction, supposition, miscalculation, impossibility, and ignorance.”

— Samuel R. Delany , book Flight from Nevèrÿon

Section 9.82 (p. 302)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)

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