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He was a stranger in a strange land: lost in the cosmos, a man with neither compass nor guide, sitting in a tomb in Egypt surrounded by the dead, with Giles—a man his own age, but separated by class and sensibility and four hundred years—looking to him for answers.

— Stephen R. Lawhead The Skin Map (2010)

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“Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.”

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The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them.

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The great hulking eminence of the stone-age mound stood out as an ominous dark shadow.

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