Vex King Book Quotes

Yes, I am fond of history.’ ‘I wish I were too. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all – it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention. The speeches that are put into the heroes’ mouths, their thoughts and designs – the chief of all this must be invention, and invention is what delights me in other books.

We make life all about a future that exists only in our imagination and completely miss what's happening in front of us

But that was before he’d done what he did in the square: he’d turned Sydney into a Slime and ditched her in a pool of water in the exploded half of the city. Then he’d pocketed the remaining Vex wings and lied to the Mayor, told him that PAUL’S POTIONS—the shop where he had purchased that final potion ingredient—had already been turned to swamp when he arrived. He had prevented the brewing of Miss Witch’s Slime-speak potion. As such, he had prevented the repair of the command block. By extension, he had delayed the de-swampification of Fortune City, and Sydney the Silent along with it. And therefore, he had stopped Sydney from being able to present King Reginald her stack of charged Creeper heads. Steve had won.

Otis turned toward the Ender King. “Teleport us out of here. We’ve got the sand of life. I don’t want to fight a warden.” “I’m not a vex. I can’t pass through walls.

Satirists and critics might poke fun at the similarities between religion and magic, but for Christians the closeness between the two was far less comfortable. Look carefully at modern translations of ancient biblical texts and the long-standing Christian discomfort with the idea of magic can still be seen. For centuries, a certain Christian embarrassment lingered over all words to do with magic, and particularly over the translation of the vexed word magus or, in its plural, magi.61 This is odd as, in one sense, it is not a hard word to translate. Perfectly good equivalent English words exist, for in most contexts it simply means ‘sorcerer’ or ‘magician’ – indeed, in many places in the Bible, it is translated as precisely those words. However, when it comes to the tale of the men who arrive at the birth of Jesus, the words ‘magicians’ or ‘sorcerers’ are almost never used by English biblical translators. Instead, the King James Version and many others prefer the more august – but frankly tendentious – translation of ‘wise men’. Behold, runs the famous line, ‘there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem.’62 Other versions leave the word untranslated, as the appealingly mysterious ‘Magi’. But a much more accurate translation – and one that mirrors translations of this word elsewhere in the Bible – would be: ‘Behold, there came sorcerers from the East’ – or at the very least ‘Behold, there came diviners’. That, however, was not the version that was finally settled on.*