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We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

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I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.

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Jabor finally appeared at the top of the stairs, sparks of flame radiating from his body and igniting the fabric of the house around him. He caught sight of the boy, reached out his hand and stepped forward. And banged his head nicely on the low-slung attic door.

Boy, Boys, Doors, Flame, Forward, Sight

We communicated with pithy, rather monosyllabic thoughts: viz. Run, Jump, Where? Left, Up, Duck, ect. (This latter was an observation I made on the edge of a lake. Nathaniel unfortunately took it as a command, which resulted in our temporary immersion. ) We didn't ever quite say Ug, but it was a close-run thing.

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I rather think he knew anyway.

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Despite his crimped shirts and flowing mane (or perhaps because of them) I had seen no evidence as yet that Nathaniel even knew what a girl was. If he'd ever met one, chances are they'd both have run screaming in opposite directions.

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In recent weeks it has come to my attention that many caravans have met with disaster; they have not gotten through. " I grunted wisely. "Probably ran out of water. That's the thing about deserts. Dry. " "Indeed. A fascinating analysis. But survivors reaching Hebron report differently: monsters fell upon them in the wastes. " "What, fell upon them in a squashed-them kind of way?" "More the leaped-out-and-slew-them kind. (. . . )

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