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Nova Swing (Kefahuchi Tract, #2) QUOTES

Nova Swing (Kefahuchi Tract, #2) QUOTES

1 " Perception of a state is not the state. "

― M. John Harrison , Nova Swing (Kefahuchi Tract, #2)

2 " When I was little, she thought, I wanted nothing except to stop travelling. I wanted time for each new thing, each new feeling, to be held properly in suspension until it could be joined by the next. Given the chance I could easily hold all those beautiful things together. I could be like a box in which they would be held new forever. Instead, everything aged and changed. People too. "

― M. John Harrison , Nova Swing (Kefahuchi Tract, #2)

3 " It's 2444. We're all someone. "

― M. John Harrison , Nova Swing (Kefahuchi Tract, #2)

4 " It's only music, though" she said.
"Perhaps," Aschemann agreed. For the detective, he thought, nothing is ever only itself. "

― M. John Harrison , Nova Swing (Kefahuchi Tract, #2)

5 " Adstreams floated everywhere, their unbearable lightness of being -- their simple promise -- catching you up: until the crown of butterflies round your head morphed into a crown of thorns and you found you had surrendered your intimate data to some twink-farmer forty blocks away on Pierpoint Street. "

― M. John Harrison , Nova Swing (Kefahuchi Tract, #2)

6 " You spent five years in a research tub at Radio RX-1 with the Kefahuchi Tract hanging over your shoulder like a huge boiling face, stripped, raw, heaving with some emotion you couldn't recognise. It's been fun,. It's been heartbreak all the way. It's never been less than a trip. "

― M. John Harrison , Nova Swing (Kefahuchi Tract, #2)