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Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And beca...more

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...one could accept Muhammad as a genuine mystic—just as one could accept Joan of Arc's voices as having genuinely been heard by her, or the revelatio...more

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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

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These stories become what we know, what we understand, and what we are, or, perhaps we should say, what we have become, or can perhaps be.