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findthestarlight:

Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention, please?

After years of closing my doors to the public, I am officially announcing today that Professor Mercury’s Mercuriosities has returned to astonish and delight you with a legendary assortment of rarities.

This mystical collection of artifacts and wonders from the four corners of the world (and beyond) is available to be seen for the first time in a generation, and for perhaps the last time in another.

The first item in the collection is this marvelous Alchemy Starter Set.

After paying a dear price to the last surviving member of a very… talented… order, I have obtained everything you will need to begin your journey toward unlocking the secrets of the universe.

This set has been assembled using ancient techniques and skills to bring the artful science of alchemical studies to a new generation of seekers.

The set is dangerous, to say the very least, but I think you’ll find it very useful.

Availability is still very limited. But don’t worry, everyone will have a chance to see this item for themselves.

Step right up.

-M

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"It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have — otherwise their surviving would have no meaning."
– Chinua Achebe, born on this day in 1930. (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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"Drop a stone in the still pool of your character’s life and watch the ripples."
– Jeff Gerke (via writersrelief)
"In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people’s lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time."
– Marge Piercy (via writersrelief)

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"A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into."
– Helen Dunmore (via writersrelief)
"Don’t expect the puppets of your mind to become the people of your story. If they are not realities in your own mind, there is no mysterious alchemy in ink and paper that will turn wooden figures into flesh and blood."
– Leslie Gordon Barnard (via writersrelief)
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Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl.

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Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl.

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"A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov’s crime."
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