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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
Gaki had murdered the Mandrac, and the murder weapon had been the man’s own mind. The man had been unable to live with himself once Gaki had brought down his house of cards. I could imagine the killer’s quiet voice chasing the Mandrac painstakingly along a chain of logic: if this is not true, then that cannot be true, and if that is not true, then what do you have left? I wondered where the first crack came, the first trivial admission of fault into which Gaki dug his nails.
Cage of Souls
Adrian Tchaikovsky
There’s an old romantic idea in German, das Volk dichtet, which says that the ideas and poetry of the traditional cultures come out of the folk. They do not. They come out of an elite experience, the experience of people particularly gifted, whose ears are open to the song of the universe.
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
Once again I’m struck by melancholy. I want to spend the rest of my life studying Eridian biology! But I have to save humanity first. Stupid humanity. Getting in the way of my hobbies.
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
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