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{{quote|''Sei had never been comfortable in the presence of books. Their natural state was to be shut, closed, to grin pagily from shelves, laughing at her, promising so much and delivering such meanness, such thinness. They displayed only men and women with dead eyes and rituals of living she could not understand. When closed, books gave impressions of perfection. They did not need her.''|Cathrynne M. Valente, ''Palimpsest''}}
{{quote|''We raise and raze our city like the strangest house of cards...''|[[S.J. Tucker]], "We are Shangri-La"}}
[[wikipedia:Mythpunk#Other proposed derivatives|Mythpunk]] refers to "a subgenre of mythic fiction" in which classical folklore and faerie tales get hyperpoetic postmodern makeovers. Coined by author [[Catherynne M. Valente|Catherynne M Valente]], the term describes ''[http://yuki-onna.livejournal.com/263738.html a brand of speculative fiction which starts in folklore and myth and adds elements of postmodern fantastic techniques: urban fantasy, confessional poetry, non-linear storytelling, linguistic calisthenics, worldbuilding, and academic fantasy.]''
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