on perspective

[regshoe]

Originally posted here on Tumblr.

“Pleasant, is it not, to see oneself as others see one? I said I wanted John Uskglass to look at me and I think, for a moment he did. Or at least one of his lieutenants did. And in that moment you and I were smaller than a raven’s eye and presumably as insignificant.”

One chapter later:

“An English magician is an impressive thing. Two English magicians are, I suppose, twice as impressive — but when those two English magicians are shrouded in an Impenetrable Darkness — ah, well! That, I should think, is enough to strike terror into the heart of any one short of a demi-god!

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