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Family wasn't like that, not really. It was not something small and compact, a nuclear family: it was a great big mess of people, all interlinked, cousins and aunts and relatives-by-marriage and otherwise--it was a network, like the Conversation or a human brain. It was what he had tried to escape, going into the Up and Out, but you cannot run away from family, it follows you, wherever you go.

~ Lavie Tidhar

Lavie Tidhar Family

Destiny is like a book. It needs manufacturing, the pulp process, the glue fixed tightly--and it requires a binding, to hold it together, lest it fall apart.

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Lavie Tidhar Destiny

Think of the future, she whispers. Jumbled images in primary colours. White and red swastika flags waving in the wind; gleaming rockets flying into the air; skyscrapers rise above the Danube, the Thames, the Volga and the Rhine, blond children play under a bright African sun, their uniforms ironed to perfection by their servant-slaves nearby, modern women work at factories assembling Volkswagens, in the mountains in a wood cabin Maria and Erich and their three children go on a skiing holiday, laughing, holding hands…

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Lavie Tidhar Future

In the words he’s free, on the page he can be anything. A hero.

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Lavie Tidhar Hero Page Words

The fat man looked amused. What on earth for? he said. I never have any contact with writers. If I do, they just keep pestering me about getting paid.

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Lavie Tidhar Getting Paid Writers

I was covered in gore, dripping in slime, and in a very bad mood.

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Lavie Tidhar Gore Humor Violence

Somewhere in the distance he could hear a wireless playing Judy Garland's 'Over the Rainbow.' Wolf had seen the film but, had he been the one swept up to the magical land of Oz, he would have raised an army of flying monkeys, stuck the witches in a concentration camp, razed the Emerald City to the ground and executed the wizard for communist sympathies, being a Jew, a homosexual, intellectually retarded, or all of the above.He did like the tune, though.

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Lavie Tidhar Flying Monkeys Hitler Satire Wizard Of Oz

Orphan could no longer hear or see the shadows of the dead. He didn't think they had perished. Most likely they were hiding now, somewhere in this landscape of books.

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Lavie Tidhar Books Dead Library

For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a wild and savage tribe that fed on unwary travellers.

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Lavie Tidhar Books Librarians Library

Perhaps it is always summer, in the place where we are young.

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Lavie Tidhar Summer Young

Meeting one’s heroes is always such a disappointment.

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Lavie Tidhar Heroes

These were the facts. Facts were important. They separated fiction from reality, the tawdry world of Mike Longshott from the concrete spaces of Joe's world.

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Lavie Tidhar Facts
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