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“Despite which, Charlie seems doomed to stumble around in the dark, clutching pieces of a puzzle he still can't see.”

Metaphor Doomed Clueless City On Fire Garth Risk Hallberg In The Dark

Book:City on Fire

Source: City on Fire

“Famous revolutionary,' you say, and the laughter pumps out of your chest like blood, great almost painful spurts of it splashing up the building faces toward the marquee moon.”

Laughing Laughter Metaphor Description City On Fire Garth Risk Hallberg

Book:City on Fire

Source: City on Fire

“He was a priest now, pagan, half-naked in the night, performing obscure rites of interment. Or he was the lead player in his own novel, or in one of those new arcade games William loved, compelled to repeat some totemic motion until he got it right. Only once did he feel, as he had on New Year's Eve, that someone was standing among the trees, watching. Well, let him watch, damn it. Something was being enacted here, as if it had been this deeper mission calling Mercer home all along. And now that he'd completed it, maybe he would be allowed to advance through to the next level, to a world where no one got shot.”

Metaphor City On Fire Garth Risk Hallberg Video Games

Book:City on Fire

Source: City on Fire

“Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face.”

Change Identity Metaphor Mask City On Fire Garth Risk Hallberg

Book:City on Fire

Source: City on Fire