He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story.

David Malouf
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  1. Words his soul danced to.

  2. The planet, saved for another day, stokes upits slow-burning gases and toxic dust, gold rift and scarletgash that take our breath away; a world at its interminableshow of holy dying. And we go with it, the oldgatherer and hunter. To its gaudy-day, though the contributionis...

  3. Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to live a new life there; its painstaking devotion to what without it might go unnoticed and unseen; its respect for...

  4. Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world.

  5. So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not leave us.

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