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Against All Things Ending

Feb 15

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But now he could not contain such illimitable vistas. Linden had made him mortal again.  His mere flesh and bone refused to hold his power and knowledge, his span of comprehension.  With every beat of his forgotten heart, intimations of eternity were expelled. They oozed from his new skin like sweat, and were lost.

Still he held more than he could endure. The burden of too much time was as profound as orogeny: it subjected his ordinary mind to pressures akin to those which caused earthquakes; tectonic shifts. His compelled transubstantiation left him frangible.

As the structure of what he had known and understood and thought and desired failed, moment after unaccustomed moment, the sentience that had sustained him across uncounted ages became riddled with fault-lines and potential slippage.

That’s exactly why I love the Thomas Covenant books.  You literally have to read them with a dictionary.

Almost, but not quite

Apr 28

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I saw Christopher Paolini’s newest book for pre-order on Amazon.com and just jumped on “place in cart” button right away!  My daughter and I have been waiting for Brisingr, the third book in The Inheritance series, for almost two years now!!

Before I clicked the “place order” button,  I realized the book will not be released until September 20, 2008!  That is quite a wait for a pre-order….

So, I didn’t order it for $19.  I’ll probably be able to pick it up at Costco the day it comes out for $13!