From this morning's subway reading:
Toug said, "What about us? How did we get here?"
"The Most High God raised us from the animals. Does that sound horrible?"
Mani [the cat] said, "Well, I certainly don't think so."
"Neither do I," I told him. "You're innocent, always, and often brave and loyal. No one who has known Gylf [the dog] as I have could be ashamed of being related to him, though there have been many times when he must have been shamed by us."
—noted Catholic writer Gene Wolfe, The Wizard, page 48
Who says fantasy cannot be a subversive literature?
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