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So," he said to the monk, "you are of an Order which also despises the Great Infernal Wizard." "Indeed, your gracious Majesty," the monk said, lookin… - Iain Banks
" "So," he said to the monk, "you are of an Order which also despises the Great Infernal Wizard."
"Indeed, your gracious Majesty," the monk said, looking down modestly at the carpet. His voice sounded respectful. "Our Belief—perhaps not so dissimilar from your own, more venerable and more widely followed creed, is that God is a Mad Scientist and we His experimental subjects, doomed forever to run the Maze of Life through apparently random and unjust punishments for meaningless and paltry rewards and no discernible good reason save His evil pleasure.
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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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An excess of boringness does not make a thing interesting except in the driest academic sense. A place is not boring if you have to look really hard for something which is interesting. If there is absolutely nothing interesting about any particular place, then that is a perfectly interesting and quintessentially un-boring place.
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