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the available documents and material remains do not provide two windows into precisely the same kinds of knowledge. Instead, they are partial complements, affording overlapping insights into different parts of the Inca world.
“Civilisation’s like the economy or Tinkerbell: If people stop believing it’s real, it dies.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“Over time events trickle out of the minds of forgetful, thoughtless people, and so, since they retain and conserve nothing, the empty space within them, that should be filled with good things, is filled instead with hopes, so that they neglect the present and look to the future, despite the fact that fortune may yet foil the future, whereas the present cannot be taken away.”
― Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives
― Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives
“Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.”
― Slade House
― Slade House
“Five years later, I take a deep, shuddery breath to stop myself crying. It’s not just that I can’t hold Aoife again, it’s everything: It’s grief for the regions we deadlanded, the ice caps we melted, the Gulf Stream we redirected, the rivers we drained, the coasts we flooded, the lakes we choked with crap, the seas we killed, the species we drove to extinction, the pollinators we wiped out, the oil we squandered, the drugs we rendered impotent, the comforting liars we voted into office—all so we didn’t have to change our cozy lifestyles. People talk about the Endarkenment like our ancestors talked about the Black Death, as if it’s an act of God. But we summoned it, with every tank of oil we burned our way through. My generation were diners stuffing ourselves senseless at the Restaurant of the Earth’s Riches knowing—while denying—that we’d be doing a runner and leaving our grandchildren a tab that can never be paid.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“For one voyage to begin, another voyage must come to an end, sort of.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
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