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What is the Anansi the Spider quote from? Anansi the Spider is a character from mythology and folklore, so it's not as obvious as the others... is it Neil Gaiman, or some other source?
I'm a pretty big Gaiman fan, but I don't recognize it from either Sandman or Anansi Boys, nor do I see anything in Google Books.
You checked American Gods?
Google Books has search for it, so I assume it's not from there.
It may be para- or misphrased. The author told us at some point that HJPEV quotes from the author's memory while Hermione quotes from reality.
Give me a little credit, I didn't just search for the exact quote but also the key verbs and nouns ('anansi killing words weight iron hesitate' and variations).
EDIT: Eliezer says it's Web of Angels, I assume the 2012 book not by Gaiman; it is listed in Google Books as no preview.
Web of Angels is from 1980.
It's also, funnily enough, from 2012. Someone should pass a law against non-unique titles!
But googling for plot summaries of the '80 novel, it's cyberpunk and pushes the web metaphor pretty far, perhaps far enough to have an Anansi character. That's probably it.
I was originally going to complain because Web of Angels was published in late 1992, but then I realized that's a reprint by a different publisher.