Yet - O God, there were so many stars you could have used.
What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?
Arthur C. Clarke.
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Yet - O God, there were so many stars you could have used.
What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash wrote:Get enough of them together, looking for the America they always believed they'd grow up in, and they glom together like overcooked rice, form integral, starchy little units.
Most people like me are dead.
The mushrooms did not reply. They were mushrooms, and mushrooms are too good to speak to lowly animals like humans.
The Great Hippo wrote:Nuclear bombs are like potato chips, you can't stop after just *one*
This was the pain before birth. The storm before spring
This was what they asked for.
This was what they wanted
This was war
We cannot help imposing our desires on the world - even though the world remains impervious to them, and keeps to laws that are not the laws our natures suppose it ought to have.
But history is made by man. Old Vico said that man can only fully understand what he has made, the corollary to that is, that what man has made he can understand: it will not, like the physical world, remain impervious to his desire to understand. So if we look at history and find in it huge stories, plots identical to the plots of myth and legend, populated by actual persons who however bear the symbols and even the names of gods and demons, we need be no more alarmed and suspicious than we would be on picking up a hammer and finding its grip fit for our hand, and its head balanced for our striking. We are understanding what we have made, and its shape is ours; we have made history…the laws that govern it are not the laws of nature, but they are the laws that govern us...The story remains; and if it changes, and it does, it is because our human nature is not fixed; there is more than one history of the world. But when we believe that we have proved that there is no story, that history is just one damned thing after another that can only be because we have ceased to recognize ourselves.
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