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The Doloriad

Book by Missouri Williams · 3 quotes · Apocalypse, Cities, Communication

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“...the way that the words hung together to produce meaning had a logic that he could not follow, and sometimes he thought that this was because they spoke in images, immediate, sensuous images, that their minds had escaped the temporal relationships that had defined the language of the past and instead they lived in an eternal, causeless present, a world of pure simultaneity.”

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“...the story of the city was always a story of disintegration.”

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“...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and then the Matriarch would finally be free of it—the past and its language.”

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