What is your favorite quote of any work of Wolfe?

Spectacled Bear · 11 Apr 2003, 10:41 · from urth-v0304.mbox · original

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From: Spectacled Bear <spectacled.bear at pobox.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) What is your favorite quote of any work of Wolfe?
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:41:13 +0100
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At 07:12 2003-04-11, John Barach wrote:
>Here's one of my favourites:
>
>     We believe that we invent symbols....

When I came to read these books again after a gap of many years,
I found that this passage had been stamped on my memory like the
pattern on a metal coin; it was as perfectly familiar as if I had
committed it to memory. Yet I had not done so deliberately; it had
worked on me by itself, just as Severian says.

Spectacled Bear.

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