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Arm of the Sphinx (The Books of Babel, #2)
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Read between February 4 - February 9, 2024
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Civilization is like sunshine. Spread it about, and the world blooms with culture, innovation, and fraternity. But focus it all upon one spot, and mankind scorches the earth like a ray from a magnifying glass.
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“The rules of engagement,� Captain Tom Mudd explained to the irate captain who’d been duped by this ruse, “were invented by men who would benefit most from them.�
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History is a love letter to tyrants written in the blood of the overrun, the forgotten, the expunged!�
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We are, each of us, a multitude. I am not the man I was this morning, nor the man of yesterday. I am a throng of myself queued through time. We are, gentle reader, each a crowd within a crowd.
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The breathless platoon was pained to discover that their numbers had been reduced to one.