Friday, June 21, 2019

Book Excerpt for the Day


    People think that they live life as a moving dot traveling from the Past into the Future, with memory streaming out behind them like some kind of mental cometary tail.  But memory spreads out in front as well as behind.  It’s just that most humans aren’t good at dealing with it, and so it arrives as premonitions, forebodings, intuitions, and hunches.  Witches are good at dealing with it, and to suddenly find a blank where the tendrils of the future should be has much the same effect on a witch as emerging from a cloud bank and seeing a team of sherpas looking down on him does on an airline pilot.

    (from Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett)

  10*/10.  The complete review is here.
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