The Cloven
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And then he was gone, the water closing over him, his hair rising like a slow-motion anemone, flowing under the surface, and Nicholas’s reply, which of course he never heard, even though the Erstwhile’s mouth was also disappearing below the choppy dazzling surface when he said, “Oh, Hector, it’s not for the Rumour. We are doing this for the Vorrh.”
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Multitudes of thanks again to my brilliant editor, Timothy O’Connell, whose wisdom, skill, and enthusiasm so shaped this book. And to his team at Vintage.
Great thanks also to Mark Booth and his team at Hodder & Stoughton.
And to my brave agents, Jon Elek and Seth Fishman.
And a special thank-you for all of my first test readers who made sure I was not writing “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” And made the first edits and corrections on my long path to literacy. Giving confidence and direction inside the Vorrh:
Iain Sinclair, Flossie Catling, David Russell, Sarah Simblet, Rebecca Hind, and Honest Publishing.
And thanks to those whose generous and critical support drove the manuscripts on:
Alan Moore, Ray Cooper, Terry Gilliam, Michael Moorcock, Tony Grisoni, Geoff Cox, Anna Sinclair, Jo Welsh, Caroline Wirth, Tom Waits, Peter Jewkes, Stuart Kelly, Phillip Pullman, Jeff VanderMeer, Alex Preston, and Roddy Bell.
And for the solid ground of the Ruskin School of Art and the Pitt-Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.
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