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Liz Williams
British
Author
Born:
1965
Any
Me
Paganism
People
Science
World
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I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city's Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon.
Liz Williams
Myself
Relationship
World
Hero
Hell
Sidekick
Extremely
Slightly
Futuristic
City
Detective
Written
Since
Demon
Real
Up
Ends
The Real World
Real World
Chinese
Who
Series
Novels
Imaginary
Set
You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as long as exciting things happen to them and around them, and crime is the ideal genre for making this come about.
Liz Williams
You
Crime
Long
Think
Run
About
Steady
Risk
Exciting
Exciting Things
Ideal
Terminal
Come
Protagonist
Genre
Around
Making
Dullness
Quiet
Happen
Them
Things
Things Happen
Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'
Liz Williams
Death
Something
Only
Remain
Could
Countryside
English
English Countryside
Violent
There are a few people who are, let's say, personality-challenged, who would like to set up a cult, but in large part they fail due to the innate stroppiness and independence of their fellow pagans.
Liz Williams
People
Independence
Few
Say
Would
Part
Fail
Like
Fellow
Due
Cult
Up
Few People
Who
Large
Large Part
Innate
Set
Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that nebulous, tricky ontology known as 'common sense.'
Liz Williams
Science
Thought
Sense
Philosophy
Tricky
Mainstream
Known
Passed
Currency
Common
Common Sense
Much
Karl
Now
I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them.
Liz Williams
Prayer
Focus
Power
Think
Lies
Silent
Minute
Direction
Participants
Contemplation
Up
Lack
Them
Inherent
Actually
External
Some religious practitioners make absolutist claims for their beliefs: I've no interest in doing this, nor do I have any interest in converting people, which is doubtless a relief to anyone who has feared finding me on their doorstep asking if they'd like to know more about Odin.
Liz Williams
Me
People
Claims
Relief
Finding
Religious
Some
Feared
About
No Interest
More
Like
Know
Make
Doing
Nor
Any
Anyone
Doorstep
Which
Interest
Converting
Asking
Doubtless
Who
Beliefs
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