“You understand, Pryn, I don’t believe in any of it: magic, miracles, religion, the calling of the gods, named or unnamed.”

—  Samuel R. Delany, book Flight from Nevèrÿon

Section 9.21 (p. 248)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)

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