China Mieville Quote

His manager taught him that words change with time, by single letters or more, sometimes their whole roots switching—a y to an e in a name for power, sun-writing becomes light-drawing. The man eventually gave him this whole other tongue, and he revisited and at last learned from those cuttings about immense foreign wars.

China Mieville

His manager taught him that words change with time, by single letters or more, sometimes their whole roots switching—a y to an e in a name for power, sun-writing becomes light-drawing. The man eventually gave him this whole other tongue, and he revisited and at last learned from those cuttings about immense foreign wars.

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