Intellectual Kink
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"It all makes sense," Ed went on, "the imperfect matter purified, but purity is without vitality -- the greening into life, and then the chaos of life, which has to flourish if you want to get anything potent out of it -- and then the re-focusing of chaos, making it true without sterilizing it into lifeless purity, and then the willing sacrifice, the offering of the self -- but I still don't understand where the energy for the final stage, the rebirth from the flames, I don't see how you can get that -- it's not physically possible, there's nothing entering the reaction there . . ."
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- Part 1 of The Great Cycle
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He had the sense of standing on a precipice, looking down on something he didn't understand.
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Emotions were messy and complicated and his impulse with all things messy and complicated was to skewer them like an insect on a pin and then examine them from all angles.
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- Part 2 of The Great Cycle