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| 45 | 26 | It would be a machine, complicated and powerful, but a machine, View more quotes about something">something of this world, and a machine can be built, can be countered, can be dismantled, can be destroyed". |
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| 45 | 23 | "It is terrible enough," said Haruki. |
| 45 | 24 | "But it would have lost its mantle of mystery, its most fearsome feature, the aura of the unnatural and incomprehensible; it would no longer be something unfamiliar and inexplicable which transcends reason and the world as we know it; it would no longer be something astonishing and unwelcome, emerged from another dimension or world, from a suspected, feared, foreign order of reality. |
| 45 | 25 | It would no longer be the iron dragon. |
| 45 | 26 | It would be a machine, complicated and powerful, but a machine, something of this world, and a machine can be built, can be countered, can be dismantled, can be destroyed". |
| 45 | 27 | "I have never seen such a machine," said Pertinax. |
| 45 | 28 | "It is no ordinary machine. |
| 45 | 29 | Consider the fluidity of its movement, how it can turn in the air, no visible sign of its propulsion, its capacity to remain in place unsuspended". |