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Timothy Thomas Powers (born 29 February 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.
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“Guesses based on guesses are of no value.”
“Every ruler wants to maintain the status quo.”
“Which perspective is true? he thought. Which do I want to be true?”
“Trusting Merlin is like giving a migrant scorpion a lift inside your hat.”
““Maybe later,” he told her. “Time yet for a hundred indecisions.””
“The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.”
“Your skull in gold will be more valuable than others, being solid all through.”
““Whats o’clock?”
It wants a quarter to twelve,
And to-morrow’s doomsday.”
It wants a quarter to twelve,
And to-morrow’s doomsday.”
“How, he wondered forlornly, and when, did I become indistinguishable from the bad guys?”
““My wife was a psychiatrist,” remarked Pete, “before she became a bruja.””
“It’s important to feel good about yourself. This morning I met somebody I really like—me.”
“He wondered if she had actually read his mind or simply knew him well enough to guess his thoughts.”
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Tim Powers on Shroud of Turin
““This is very pretty,” said Elizalde... “It’s morbid,” snapped Sullivan. “Burying a bunch of dead bodies, and putting a fancy marker over each one so the survivors will know where to go and cry. What if the markers got rearranged? You’d be weeping over some stranger. Not some stranger, even, some cast-off dead body of a stranger, like a pile of fingernail clippings or old shoes, or the dust from inside an electric razor. What’s the difference between coming out here to think about dead Uncle Irving, and thinking about him in your own living room? Okay, here you can sit on the grass and be only six feet above his inert old body. Would it be better if you could dig a hole, and sit only one foot above it?” He was shaking. “Everybody should be cremated, and the ashes should be tossed in the sea with no fanfare at all.” “It’s a sign of respect,” said Elizalde angrily. “And it’s a real, tangible link. Think of the Shroud of Turin! Where would we be if they had cremated Jesus?” “I don’t know—we’d have the Ashtray of Turin.””
About Tim Powers
Timothy Thomas Powers (born 29 February 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.