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August 15, 2020 by achrilock

“And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.”
— Exodus 7:7, The Bible (KJV)

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https://achrilock.com/2020/08/15/2453/

August 14, 2020 by achrilock

“‘Hi,’ he said again. Everyone beamed at him, or at least, nearly everyone.”
— Douglas Adams, ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/08/14/2419/

August 13, 2020 by achrilock

“Ground crew were loading shrink-wrapped white metal boxes the size of refrigerators into the back bay of the jet.
‘What are those things?’ asked Dallas.
‘Beats me,’ said Clint. ‘Maybe some kind of office computers?’
‘They’re voting machines,’ said Xelina. ‘Offshore modified, special order.’”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Tropic of Kansas’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/08/13/2385/

August 12, 2020 by achrilock

“Presumably, if enough lives were fed to the garden every blossom and every wall would someday turn a rich, rusty red. Some rumors had it that the garden merely drank what was spilled upon it; others claimed that the roses would actually draw blood forth from a wound, and could drain a man white from any cut, no matter how small.”
— Scott Lynch, ‘The Lies of Locke Lamora’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/08/12/2352/

August 12, 2020 by achrilock

“I have a different way of dividing America that amounts to the same thing: Dollar General-Dollar Tree-Family Dollar America versus Starbucks-Target-Whole Foods America. All six of those chains started or exploded in the 1980s as we began making the political economy more unfair and unequal. In 2016 Trump won all 9 states where the density of dollar stores is highest, and 10 of the next 13 on the chart; Clinton won 15 of the 25 states that have the relatively fewest dollar stores.”
— Kurt Andersen, ‘Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/08/12/2342/

August 11, 2020 by achrilock

“‘Rabbi Kimble,’ the moderator said, ‘we’ve had contact with an undisputed alien artifact that took over Eros Station, spent a little over a year preparing itself in the vicious pressure cooker of Venus, then launched a massive complex of structures just outside the orbit of Uranus and built a thousand-kilometer-wide ring.'”
— James S.A. Corey, ‘Abaddon’s Gate’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/08/11/2321/

August 10, 2020 by achrilock

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https://achrilock.com/2020/08/10/2291/

August 9, 2020 by achrilock

by Valentin Antonini

https://achrilock.com/2020/08/09/2275/

August 9, 2020 by achrilock

“In a normal law-abiding world it’s better to toe the line, and come to heel when the man in uniform calls you. But that world’s gone, for the time being at least. From now on it’s safer to follow Martha’s policy—turn a blind eye and put your foot down.”
— John Christopher, ‘When the Tripods Came’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/08/09/2268/

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/

August 7, 2020 by achrilock

“Bears and bears and bears, oh my!”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘New York 2140’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/08/07/2208/

August 6, 2020 by achrilock

“Psychology is a science in which the observer becomes intimately involved with the subject of observation.
That’s one of the reasons I don’t think it’s a science.
It is certainly a science. One of its tenets is, if you want to know more, care more. Every astronomer loves the stars. Otherwise why study them so?”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Green Mars’

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https://achrilock.com/2020/08/06/2178/