The Last Days of New Paris
China Miéville
Top 10 Best Quotes
“In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things.”
“With the city like this, don’t we have greater needs than poetry?”
“A blast, an acceleration, the distillate, the spirit, the history, the weaponized soul of convulsive beauty went critical.”
“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers. Now,”
“Surrealism comes for us all, Thibaut thinks.”
“At dawn a great shark mouth appears at the horizon smiling like a stupid angel and chewing silently on the sky.”
“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.”
“That,” she says, “is what I am. I am what’s been sent for.”
“So there I am, wondering what to do, and I see you, and I see what you're carrying. And _that_ is why I came running after you. Because I do not believe in coincidence.”
“Objects foraged out of Nazis' quarantine, fenced for colossal sums in the black markets of the world outside. Manifs stolen while the partisans fight for liberation, while Thibaut and his comrades face down devils and fascists and errant art, and die.”
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Book Keywords:
surrealism, words, poetry
