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The Hand That Mocked Them



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Sun May 22, 2022 11:56 pm
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"I've no doubt of his intellect," if he had he wouldn't have bothered with this at all, "I only doubt his judgment, and perhaps his sanity."
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Sun May 22, 2022 11:57 pm
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That was absolutely unacceptable. "His sanity and judgement are flawless," Hieronymus said, scandalized. "How could you think otherwise?"
"I’m thinking about the aurora borealis. You can’t tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured." --Too-Ticky

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Mon May 23, 2022 12:02 am
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"He created you," Kivvien said simply. "Every word you have said about his work has done nothing to make him sound sane."
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Mon May 23, 2022 12:06 am
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"Just because it isn't often done doesn't mean it isn't innovative and intelligent," he retorted. "Many great geniuses have been called insane in their time, have they not?"
"I’m thinking about the aurora borealis. You can’t tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured." --Too-Ticky

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Mon May 23, 2022 12:10 am
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Kivvien shook his head. "I will not try to persuade a dog to admonish its master."
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Mon May 23, 2022 12:13 am
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"If I were a dog I would have no words to defend him. And dogs take far less effort to construct, anyway."
"I’m thinking about the aurora borealis. You can’t tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured." --Too-Ticky

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Mon May 23, 2022 12:18 am
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"I was not speaking literally, creature."
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Mon May 23, 2022 12:19 am
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"I am fully aware of that; I was merely suggesting you ought not compare two things that could not be more different."
"I’m thinking about the aurora borealis. You can’t tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured." --Too-Ticky

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Mon May 23, 2022 12:22 am
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"You are more similar to a trained dog than you are to any person I've ever met."
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Mon May 23, 2022 12:27 am
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"Can dogs read and write?" Hieronymus countered. "Can they communicate eloquently and coherently? Can they build their own legs?"
"I’m thinking about the aurora borealis. You can’t tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured." --Too-Ticky

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Mon May 23, 2022 12:31 am
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"They can't comprehend simple metaphor."
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Mon May 23, 2022 12:33 am
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"I can," he pointed out. "I know when I'm being insulted. You think I want to be despised by society? The law makes it so, but I am the way I am and that can't change."
"I’m thinking about the aurora borealis. You can’t tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured." --Too-Ticky

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Mon May 23, 2022 12:35 am
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"You should never have been created, creature. It hardly matters what you want."
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Mon May 23, 2022 1:08 am
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Hieronymus glared at him, hurt by that. "No. No, I suppose it doesnt." He disappeared back under the burlap, shutting his eyes tightly.
"I’m thinking about the aurora borealis. You can’t tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured." --Too-Ticky

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Mon May 23, 2022 1:15 am
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Kivvien enjoyed the following silence. He could almost pretend he wasn't being guided by an alchemical mistake to a madman.
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It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey