← Vie’s Library
a blank void followed rapidly by an impression of being comfortably at home in bed—wishful thinking on the part of his subconscious, presumably—
but there’s something to be said for unplanned cities. Colony Two was soothing in its symmetry and its order. Sometimes order can be relentless.
Mercantile Library in Cincinnati,
—Because of that ancient horror, too embarrassingly irrational to be articulated aloud: if you say the name of the thing you fear, might you attract that thing’s attention?
The traveler’s presence itself is a disruption, that’s the phrase I remember my dad using. There’s no way to go back, engage with the past, and leave the time line perfectly unchanged.”
What you have to understand is that bureaucracy is an organism, and the prime goal of every organism is
self-protection. Bureaucracy exists to protect itself.”
A life lived in a simulation is still a life.
I’ve been thinking a great deal about time and motion lately, about being a still point in the ceaseless rush.