## Metadata - Author: [[M. John Harrison and Neil Gaiman]] - Full Title: Viriconium - Category: #books ## Highlights - She smiled, and the smile passed barriers he had not thought existed in his morose soul. ([Location 543](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000XU8E6Y&location=543)) - They sat on opposite sides of a table and a silence. ([Location 567](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000XU8E6Y&location=567)) - And he stormed off, a gigantic paradox suspended on the thin line between comedy and horror, to test his machine by completing a full circuit of the encampment under the amazed eyes of fifteen thousand sensible fighting men. ([Location 1221](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000XU8E6Y&location=1221)) - Time bucked and whipped like a broken hawser in Cromis’s head, and for a moment he existed at two separate and distinct points along its curve— ([Location 1256](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000XU8E6Y&location=1256)) - He wondered if so perfect an imitation of organic life might feel a perfect imitation of pain. ([Location 1503](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000XU8E6Y&location=1503))