« Reading - or at least sigler - it looks a lot like pregnancy, she says, rather happy with her metaphor. we feel overwhelmed with emotions and reactions for which we are not yet ready... we feel far too full, we no longer feel ourselves, we are catapulted to an uncertain destiny, towards a future where everything risks being turned upside down. »
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Dan Simmons
Olympos |
Dan Simmons
Olympos
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« It was Grandam who had made me notice that the parish priests of the various villages on the edge of the moor, on Hyperion, tended to remain somewhat children: treated with deference by their parishioners, too pampered by housewives and women of all ages, never in real competition with other adult males. »
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Dan Simmons
The Hyperion Cycle, Volume 4: The Awakening of Endymion |
Dan Simmons
The Hyperion Cycle, Volume 4: The Awakening of Endymion
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