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It's pretty obvious from this that Amber is itself
a shadow, and a pretty thin one at that, a
half-realized and two-dimensional fantasy drawing
from what is really the one true world - ours.
-- Endymion of alt.gothic, in the thread
"[alt.gothic.bookworms] Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint"
Our present earth is just a shadow
of the perfection that is Amber?
MAKER
Okay, that plays.
But when you get to Amber, you
discover that the one true reality
is a cardboard, quasi-medieval
place populated by a handful of
sociopaths (and a nation of largely
unseen spear carriers).
If Amber is the perfect city...
well, I'd rather hang in
Gibson's Sprawl.
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