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Umar Khan
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It seemed to him perfectly natural that a father should introduce his lone son to the idea that existence tends to be nourished from below, from the fear level, the plane of obsession, the starkest tract of awareness.
“He’d seen artificial intelligence apps, of course, but he’d sworn publicly never to use them. An existential threat to the noble craft of writing!”
― The Secret of Secrets
― The Secret of Secrets
“The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!”
― 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]
― 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]
“Young people broadcasting themselves nonstop to the world? I see it every day on campus. Even the world’s ‘best and brightest’ seem far more interested in the online world than the real one.”
― The Secret of Secrets
― The Secret of Secrets
“Dying felt a lot like dreaming, she had explained, describing how in dreams we often perceived ourselves as weightless, massless beings, with the ability to move through obstacles, fly through the air, or shift locations—in essence, we became a consciousness without a physical form.”
― The Secret of Secrets
― The Secret of Secrets
“Mutually assured destruction,” Nagel said. “It’s a proven model. If it didn’t work, the world’s superpowers would have launched nuclear weapons at each other in the 1960s. Instead, self-preservation creates a standoff; we simply agree to disagree.”
― The Secret of Secrets
― The Secret of Secrets
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