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1 " Then the syncretist Ficino, sitting hunched with Lorenzo standing at his side, put all the ideas together, along with Lorenzo's new song: chariots blazing between the worlds as gods fought rebel gods, the destruction of a city -- a planet? -- by fire, beasts beyond imagining both to terrify and befriend the heroes."It needs a title," Signorina Scala said.Pulci had his mouth open, but Ficino beat him to the pun."It shall be dedicated to Isis and Mars," he said, "and we will call it Stella Martis. "
― John M. Ford , The Dragon Waiting
2 " Someday we will be only spirit, and all one; but here on earth we're made of earth, and sometimes flesh must touch. "
3 " Magic is a building of many small efforts towards a final, greater end," Hywel said. "Magic is slow. "
4 " Was it worth it, Peredur?” Richard said. “So I am now undisputed King. Do I have a son, or brothers? Is the land renewed? Shall I decree happiness, on pain of death? "