Anansi Boys
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Anasi Boys (2005) by Neil Gaiman It is a companion to Gaiman's earlier novel American Gods. In Anansi Boys we discover that 'Mr. Nancy' (Anansi) from American Gods has two sons, and the two sons in turn discover each other. The novel follows their adventures as they explore their common heritage.
[edit] Chapter 9 - In Which A Pot of Coffee Comes in Particularly Useful
- It was England in the autumn; the sun was, by definition, something that only happened when it wasn't cloudy or raining.
- pg. 180
- There was reality and there was reality; and some things were more real than others.
- pg. 181
[edit] Chapter 11 - In Which Rosie Learns To Say No To Strangers And Fat Charlie Acquires A Lime
- It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particularly long to learn that for yourself. There is a theory that, in the whole world, there are only five hundred real people (the cast, as it were; all the rest of the people in the world, the theory suggests, are extras) and what is more, they all know each other. And it's true, or true as far as it does. In reality the world is made of thousands upon thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It's not even coincidence. It's just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or propriety.
- pg. 247
[edit] Chapter 12 - In Which Fat Charlie Does Several Things For The First Time
- "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.
- pg. 263
[edit] Chapter 13 - Which Proves Unlucky For Some
- The creature laughed scornfully. "I," it said, "am frightened of nothing."
- "Nothing?"
- "Nothing," it said.
- Charlie said "Are you extremely frightened of nothing?"
- "Absolutely terrified of it," admitted the Dragon.
- "You know," said Charlie "I have nothing in my pockets. Would you like to see it?"
- "No," said the dragon uncomfortably, "I most definitely would not."
- There was a flapping of wings like sails, and Charlie was alone on the beach. "That," he said "was much too easy."
- pg. 303-304
- ... the beast made the noise of a cat being shampooed, a lonely wail of horror and outrage, of shame and defeat.
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- "Absatively."
