Quotation

Bolot was an iceberg, all bright surfaces and hidden depths, and like an iceberg he rotated now and then to show a new face. === I journeyed into the underworld, where the Smallpox People cut out my heart and boiled it, and the Master of Madness stripped me of skin, the Master of Confusion stripped me of muscle, and the Master of Stupidity stripped me of organs. I was a skeleton wandering in the dark, not sure what I was seeking but somehow aware that I’d know when I found it. Then the Masters rebuilt me, and a silversmith made me eyes that could see new worlds, and a blacksmith pierced my ears with iron fingers to allow me to hear the plants talking. Now, if I wanted to, I could twist my head off,“…