Nathaniel R.
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“Mere mortals doing what needed to be done a hundred years earlier would have the same effect as divine intervention.”
― Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
― Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
“On the sixth floor, he hallucinates. The host droid tells him the reason the lifts are down is because he tossed a small urchin's thieving tool into traffic, and that the Ledger of Universal Suffering is always balanced at Southern Urbanite Memory.”
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“The vigilant cyclist expects serious ineptitude from strangers in traffic, and therefore is not surprised or angry when it has to be endured. The vigilant cyclist keeps the head up and the eyes forward unless absolutely necessary to look elsewhere. The vigilant cyclist is not a trusting cyclist, but makes up for this lack with a load of patience. [...] The vigilant cyclist will not be faked out or lulled into complacency by the semisadistic urban spirits and their tricks.”
― The Art of Urban Cycling: Lessons from the Street
― The Art of Urban Cycling: Lessons from the Street
“To fall in love with the world isn’t to ignore or overlook suffering, both human or otherwise. For me anyway, to fall in love with the world is to look up at the night sky and feel your mind swim before the beauty and the distance of the stars. It is to hold your children while they cry and watch the sycamore trees leaf out in June. When my breastbone starts to hurt, and my throat tightens and tears well in my eyes, I want to look away from feeling. I want to deflect with irony or anything else that will keep me from feeling directly. We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
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