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Quotes from Apocalypse Descending — Elizabeth Hand

born 1957 United States

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I've always had numinous dreams, and a lot of them feature a Dionysian character I named The Boy in the Tree.

Apocalypse Descending (2002)

I think Washington is a magical place.

Apocalypse Descending (2002)

No one actually knows what these cultures were really like, but it's doubtful that they were free of the same problems of sexual inequality that we have today.

Apocalypse Descending (2002)

I have to say (regretfully) that I've seen very little in my real life to indicate the presence of either the supernatural or the divine.

Apocalypse Descending (2002)

I saw no evidence of supernatural ones, alas.

Apocalypse Descending (2002)

I love the notion of there being a single group of Apollonian watchdogs down through the aeons, keeping the world safe from the malign (and far more fun-loving) forces of Dionysos.

Apocalypse Descending (2002)

I had no distance or detachment from what I read: it seemed too real to me, too possible.

Apocalypse Descending (2002)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elizabeth Hand (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.