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"Evelyn is the ultimate flawless protagonist, eager to do whatever the plot requires. The plot says it’s time to have sex? She wants to have sex! It’s time to have a baby? She wants to have a baby!
How lucky that she is just compassionate enough to be likable but just detached enough to act without hesitation or introspection. It’s painfully obvious at every turn that her story has already been written for her." — Jul 06, 2025 06:06AM
"Evelyn is the ultimate flawless protagonist, eager to do whatever the plot requires. The plot says it’s time to have sex? She wants to have sex! It’s time to have a baby? She wants to have a baby!
How lucky that she is just compassionate enough to be likable but just detached enough to act without hesitation or introspection. It’s painfully obvious at every turn that her story has already been written for her." — Jul 06, 2025 06:06AM
“Either everyone’s happy or no one is safe. But we’re never happy. So we’ll never be safe. Or put it this way: Either every culture is respected, or no one is safe. Either everyone has dignity or no one has it.”
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“Deer are the sad sacks of American wildlife, so beautiful, so defenseless, so numerous, so dim. Their chief predator is cars. They never seem to get it, about cars or anything else; or maybe they do, but they don’t have a good way to transmit what they learn to their kids, if they happen to get lucky and live past their youth. It’s important always to remember that even if they’re as common as rats, some kind of mammal weed, they are still beautiful wild animals, getting by on their own in a dangerous world. I always say hi when I see them, and try to remember to get the same thrill I would if I were to see someone unusual, like a wolverine. It’s hard, but it’s a habit you can build. Love your deer! Just fence your veggie garden really well.”
― The Ministry for the Future
― The Ministry for the Future
“Here’s the true economy, these people said: since the Earth’s biosphere was the only one available to humanity, and its healthy function absolutely necessary to humanity’s existence, its worth to people was a kind of existential infinity. Gauging the price of saving the biosphere’s functions against the cost of losing them would therefore always be impossible. Macroeconomics had thus long ago entered a zone of confusion, either early in the century or perhaps from the moment of its birth, and now was revealed for the pseudoscience it had always been.”
― The Ministry for the Future
― The Ministry for the Future
“He had turned to the last page, which was mostly blank. Please elaborate here on any additional compliments or criticisms you may have of this teacher. Extra sheets of paper may be attached if necessary.
His pen hovered over the paper. Then he folded the sheet and pushed it aside.
"What," I said, "aren't you going to write anything?"
Henry took a sip of his tea. "How," he said, "can I possibly make the Dean of Students understand that there is a divinity in our midst?”
― The Secret History
His pen hovered over the paper. Then he folded the sheet and pushed it aside.
"What," I said, "aren't you going to write anything?"
Henry took a sip of his tea. "How," he said, "can I possibly make the Dean of Students understand that there is a divinity in our midst?”
― The Secret History
“Someone said that people don’t really want to date other people. They don’t really want equal partnership—you know, two full people in a relationship. Two people with demands and desires and differences of opinion about everything. What they want is one-point-five people in the relationship. They want to be the complete one, the person who controls the relationship—and they want the other person to be half a person. You know, someone who gets them, but who doesn’t have their own demands. Someone who appears complete, with all these personality quirks and their own opinions and stories about the world—but not in an annoying way. Not in a way that would demand you change. So six or seven years ago, this big company in the SF-SD Axis that specializes in AI started cranking these things out. What you do is, you fill out this long questionnaire on your terminal, play a whole bunch of different simulations and puzzle games, and then they custom-produce one for you.”
― The Mountain in the Sea
― The Mountain in the Sea
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