There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is … - China Mieville

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We live in a world that someone can say anything about anyone and it can be seen as the truth.

China Mieville

There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we can know are those untrustworthy glimpses--that and rumour. The prattle. The dead gossip: it is the reverberation of that gossip against the surface tension of death that the better mediums hear. It is like listening to whispered secrets through a toilet door. It is a crude and muffled susurrus.

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