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I'm the author of ECHELON, andEMPYRE (Random House) and am hard at work on my third book. I also write for Hollywood when they let me (HBO's ROME). Check out what I'm researching (translation: cool stuff I find when I should be writing) and whatever else strikes me.
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In fact I doubt whether there is a more decisive moment for a thinking being than when the scales fall from his eyes and he discovers that he is not an isolated unit lost in the cosmic solitudes, and realizes that a universal will to live converges and is hominised in him.

In such a vision man is not seen as a static centre of the world… but as the axis and leading shoot of evolution, which is something far finer.

Teilhard de Chardin
In my formulation: ‘The Eternal is in any case far more the ruffle on a dress than some idea.’
Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project (via itfeltlikeakiss)

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All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war
Walter Benjamin
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Karl Kraus
Of the primeval Priests assum’d power,
When Eternals spurn’d back his religion;
And gave him a place in the north,
Obscure, shadowy, void, solitary.
Eternals I hear your call gladly,
Dictate swift winged words, & fear not
To unfold your dark visions of torment.
From The Book of Urizen, by William Blake

Of the primeval Priests assum’d power,

When Eternals spurn’d back his religion;

And gave him a place in the north,

Obscure, shadowy, void, solitary.

Eternals I hear your call gladly,

Dictate swift winged words, & fear not

To unfold your dark visions of torment.

From The Book of Urizen, by William Blake

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“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
Albert Camus, The Fall