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“...if your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale’s head for an afternoon.”

Book:How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

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Steven Johnson is a renowned author, born on June 6, 1968. His works cover a range of topics including innovation, urban development, and technology, and have been well-received by readers. more

“Besides, nothing mattered to her any longer. If she had anything left it was her horror of cold — and the uncle had coal through his contacts. But she found the atmosphere of Berlin hard to bear. She dreamed of escape, of going to live under some more clement sky, far, very far away from it all, closer to nature.”

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Book:The Roots of Heaven

Source: The Roots of Heaven

“Land is a ripe mango on your tongue the ocean is a watermelon in your mouth.”

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“Animals rise through a slope toward the summit like migratory birds over an amavasya sky. I watch a mountain loop our prayers like an echo through the darkness. A glistening comet appears across the sky, a streak of purple phosphorescence, as a row of earthen lamps lit over a porch.”

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Author:Sneha Subramanian Kanta

“Life carried on. Much as it always had. In this harsh and rugged place, where all could seem hopeless, but where sometimes, inexplicably… new hopes were forged. In blood and fire and sand. And sky.”

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“Ghosts with periscope eyes, each a mausoleum of violet lilac sent to earth in another form.”

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Book:Ghost Tracks

Source: Ghost Tracks

“Ghosts carry fragments of bone into a portion where the earth is scatheless & place them on the anther & filaments of roses.”

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Book:Ghost Tracks

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“In the dream, the fields are green again, the river is unnamed and runs like rivers run, connecting with another artery of water, running into the shore of another village.”

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Author:Sneha Subramanian Kanta

“all memory turning to light suns dwell inside the snow sleet.”

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Book:Ghost Tracks

Source: Ghost Tracks

“Imagine: shoals of fish, a pod of whales, a swarm of bodies around glacial heights in kaolin snow. The velocity of clear-sky precipitation increases with the glint of shadows.”

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Book:Ghost Tracks

Source: Ghost Tracks

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