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1 " The view was in an unearthly way beautiful, but it was also unendurable. It implied too much "
― Robert Charles Wilson , Axis (Spin, #2)
2 " [H]e dreamed things for which he had no words. "
3 " [A]ll the...people who visited me out of a sense of duty, who were relentlessly sympathetic and secretly indifferent. "
4 " What we cannot remember, we must rediscover. "
5 " Turk had family in Austin, Texas. But they hadn’t heard from him lately and wouldn’t expect to. "
6 " He opened his eyes and the irises were newly discolored, as if their pale uniform blue had been spattered with gold paint. He looked at her directly and he smiled. "
7 " Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely. "
8 " They want to touch God. "
9 " feckless ants. "
10 " Weil said. “Details are scarce, and I’m not a scientist, but it involves a biologically mediated attempt at communicating with the Hypotheticals. "
11 " lacunae "
12 " binomials "
13 " ghoti, "
14 " Turk tried to study the crowd of Fourths, but the light was behind them and they weren’t much more than silhouettes. "
15 " Theoretically, the procedure might be more stable if it was applied to a human fetus in vivo. An unborn child in the womb. "
16 " The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting. "
17 " Brian took her hand a final time, then turned and walked away. Lise sat at the table a while longer. The cooling air from the patio was pleasant. The stars were coming out. Mahmud poured coffee from a silver carafe. What we cannot remember, we must rediscover. “I’m sorry—did you say something?” “I said, it’s getting dark.” Mahmud smiled. “It’s these sunsets. Seems like they go on forever. "