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August 8, 2020 by achrilock

“Looking at it in the apocalypse of the Mercurial dawn, it’s impossible to believe it’s not alive. It roars in your ears, it speaks to you.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘2312’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/08/08/2241/

June 28, 2020 by achrilock

“You may be on the other side of a great divide, your life indefinitely long and headed for the stars. Not so we the living, thrashing around in our little solar system like bacteria filling a new rain puddle. This puddle is all we’ve got.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘2312’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/06/28/1062/

June 27, 2020 by achrilock

“texts are written for people to read later. They are a kind of time capsule, a speaking to one’s descendants. Reading this text, you see back to an older time, when the tumult and disorder may be scarcely believable to you.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘2312’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/06/27/1023/

June 13, 2020 by achrilock

“to form a sentence is to collapse many superposed wave functions to a single thought universe. Multiplying the lost universes word by word, we can say that each sentence extinguishes 10n universes, where n is the number of words in the sentence. Each thought condenses trillions of potential thoughts. Thus we get verbal overshadowing, where the language we use structures the reality we inhabit. Maybe this is a blessing. Maybe this is why we need to keep making sentences”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘2312’

https://achrilock.com/2020/06/13/650/

May 22, 2020 by achrilock

“Maybe to say that someone was ‘like this’ or ‘like that’ was just an attempt to stick a memory to a board where you organized memories, like butterflies in a lepidopterist’s collection. Not really the generalization it seemed, but just a stab at understanding.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘2312’

https://achrilock.com/2020/05/22/87/