He sighed again and for several seconds merely gazed in silence at the softly shining water. “Belief is such a slippery concept among humans. So often your kind professes beliefs that your actions belie. I scarcely know what the word means to you. All I know is that my instincts incline me in that direction [toward the spirit]. That’s the sort of fragrance that reality has in my nostrils, and so I keep them pressed to every trace of the transcendent within the imminent. Surely you know that the canine soul assumes that everything is alive.” Roland, the protagonist in Roland in Moonlight by David Bentley Harto
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January 23, 2024
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