15 August: Sir Walter Scott

This date in 1771 saw the birth of Sir Walter Scott, writer and collector of ballads. Here are some quotes:

1. Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!
2. Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
3. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
4. When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
5. Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
6. He that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
7. Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.
8. One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.
9. He that is without name, without friend, without coin,without country, is still at least a man; and he that has all these is no more.
10. Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.

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Over the Rainbow

'We're not in Trinity anymore,' says Leonard Marx, quoting a line from an old Innovian  movie. The moon is different; the planes flying overhead are different. Nobody has any idea where they are or if it's possible to get home. 

In this strange new world, people from the highly technical Innovia and the less advanced Classica must co-operate in order to survive. In addition, travel through the inter-dimensional wormhole has given some people unusual and unexpected powers.

Innovia mourns the loss of its superhero, Power Blaster, last seen carrying a nuclear bomb to the upper atmosphere away from the inhabited Bird Island. They don't believe he could possibly have survived.  Power Blaster has survived, but is close to death and stranded in the new dimension. He is nursed back to health by a Classican woman, Elena. She has no idea who he is, only that she is falling in love with the handsome stranger.  

Shanna sets out to discover what happened to Nathan Tate, who didn't return from his hiking holiday, not knowing her life is about to be turned inside out and upside down. 

Meanwhile, Desi Troyes, the man responsible for the catastrophe, is at large on the new world, plotting how he can transfer his plans for world domination to the planet he now finds himself on - Earth. 

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