Here, in the bare dark face of night
A calm unhurried eye draws sight —We see in what we think we fear
The cloudings of our thought made clear - Iain Banks
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Here, in the bare dark face of night A calm unhurried eye draws sight —We see in what we think we fear The cloudings of our thought made clear
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Iain Banks
Iain Menzies Banks (February 16, 1954 – June 9, 2013), officially Iain Banks, was a Scottish writer. As Iain M. Banks he wrote science fiction; as Iain Banks he wrote literary fiction.
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Anyway, it was all terribly well organised. Done with military precision." He barked a laugh. "Better than that, actually; didn't miss and hit their own people.
Backed up, tooled up, riled up. Time to waste something.
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We all think we’re special, and in a way we are, but, at the same time, that feeling of being special is one of the things that’s common to us all, that unites us and makes us the same as each other. And when that feeling of…specialness is questioned, we feel threatened, naturally.
