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Introduction: 
I am not scared of bad people, of wicked evildoers, of monsters and creatures of the night. The people who scare me are the ones who are certain of their own rightness. The ones who know how to behave, and what their neighbours need to do to be on the side of the good.

'The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains...': 
I am old now, or at least, I am no longer young, and everything I see reminds me of something else I've seen, such that I see nothing for the first time. ... It is the curse of age, that all things are reflections of other things.

My Last Landlady: 
I've heard we see the world not as it is but as we are.

A Calendar of Tales: 
[July] I built an igloo out of books in my backyard. I used paperbacks to build it, scared of the weight of falling hardbacks or encyclopedias if I didn’t build it soundly.
——前几天看见这个有人搭了实物，不知是巧合还是致敬=v=

Nothing O'Clock: 
In the beginning - before the beginning - was the word. And the word was 'Doctor!'
——啊啊啊啊啊啊啊

The Sleeper and the Spindle: 
You took my dreams. You took my sleep.
——立刻让我想到了Sandman……

Black Dog: 
In the midst of death, as it were, life just keeps on happening.