Goodkind is noted for subtle allegories the same way Mt Kilimanjaro is known for floating weightlessly.
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Usenet article <d1kr2s$m90$1@reader1.panix.com> (2005)James Nicoll
Nothing but a speck we seem
In the waste of waters round,
Floating, floating like a dream, —
Outward bound.Dinah Craik
Nothing but a speck we seem
In the waste of waters round,
Floating, floating like a dream, —
Outward bound.Dinah Maria Mulock
Amid all these things, beyond all these things every man and nation, every plant and animal, every god and demon, charges upward like an army inflamed by an incomprehensible, unconquerable Spirit.
We struggle to make this Spirit visible, to give it a face, to encase it in words, in allegories and thoughts and incantations, that it may not escape us.
But it cannot be contained in the twentysix letters of an alphabet which we string out in rows; we know that all these words, these allegories, these thoughts, and these incantations are, once more, but a new mask with which to conceal the Abyss.Nikos Kazantzakis
Kant's position is extremely subtle — so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.
Roger Scruton
Jean Jacques Rousseau's many false starts as medical student, clockmaker, theologian, painter, servant, musician, and botanist are noted, as well as his curious letter addressed to God Almighty which he placed under the altar of Notre Dame. Rousseau's expressed repugnance toward the normal sex act is also noted.
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