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Tales from the Flat Earth


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“Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.”

Book 3 “The World’s Lure”, Chapter 5 “A Ship with Wings” (p. 167)
Tales from the Flat Earth, Night’s Master (1978)

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“The year was woven on the loom, finished and folded away upon the pile of other years in the tall chests of Time.”

Book 1 “Light Underground”, Chapter 6 “Kazir and Ferazhin” (p. 64)
Tales from the Flat Earth, Night’s Master (1978)

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“Human aspiration is often blind, its motto: I want, therefore I will have.”

Part 2 “Soul-of-the-Moon”, Chapter 4 “Moonflame” (p. 115)
Tales from the Flat Earth, Delusion's Master (1981)

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“The stink of madness is unsubtle here. Let us be going.”

Prologue, “The Tower of Baybhelu”(p. 36)
Tales from the Flat Earth, Delusion's Master (1981)

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“What else is she like?”

The Eshva sighed at the touch of Azhrarn’s fingers. The sigh said this: Like a white moth at dusk, a night-blooming lily. Like music played by the reflection of a swan as it passes over the strings of a moonlit lake.
Book 3 “The World’s Lure”, Chapter 1 “Honey-Sweet” (p. 127)
Tales from the Flat Earth, Night's Master (1978)

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