Quotation

His voice was deep, and cultured: the voice of a man who could as easily organize a press briefing as a massacre. === They had a god, who was the skull of a mammoth, and the hide of a mammoth fashioned into a rough cloak. Nunyunnini they called him. === And the ice times came and the ice times went, and the people spread out across the land, and formed new tribes and chose new totems for themselves: ravens and foxes and ground sloths and great cats and buffalo, each a taboo beast that marked a tribe’s identity, each beast a god. === He gently patted Shadow on the back and almost sent him sprawling. It was like being gently patted on the back by a wrecking ball. === Alviss son of Vindalf. He’s the king of the dwarfs. The biggest, mightiest, greatest of all the dwarf folk.” “But he’s not a dwarf,” pointed out Shadow. “He’s what, five eight? Five nine?” “Which makes him a giant among dwarfs,” said Czernobog from behind him. “Tallest dwarf in America.”