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proximoception ([personal profile] proximoception) wrote2006-11-25 04:32 am

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Endless Things is listed on amazon now, $25, preorderable for $16.50, predicted for April 1 & at 400 pp--so hardly a mere coda. The review language boasts it (Aegypt) the peer of The Alexandria Quartet and A Dance to the Music of Time. Didn't get through those but that's totally slumming.

This thing, attributed to Leonidas of Tarentum, tr. by Byron's influencer Merivale:

With courage seek the kingdom of the dead;
The path before you lies,
It is not hard to find, nor tread;
No rocks to climb, no lanes to thread;
But broad, and straight, and even still,
And ever gently slopes downhill;
You cannot miss it, though you shut your eyes.