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could not do without.



?—Charles de Lint




{Page13}myself, a brat who . . .

couldn’t figure numbers worth a damn

was always a chancer

and given three lines to add I’d put the middle row

down as the answer

but I could read all day if I could get away with it

and all night too with a flashlight under the covers

of that Green Man . . . or of Merlin of the borders. . . .



?—ROBIN WILLIAMSON,

from “Five Denials on Merlin’s Grave”
He wanted the sort of book that didn’t seem to need a beginning and end, that could be opened at any
page without suffering for it?—slow, candlelight reading.



?—JAMES P. BLAYLOCK,

fromLand of Dreams




PART ONE – The Hidden People
{Page15}Man has closed himself up, till he sees all

things through the narrow chinks of his cavern.



?—WILLIAM BLAKE