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Peter Clines
“I took in a deep breath, and smoke twisted around my head as I let it slip through my teeth. “Do you know what my favorite show was when I was a little kid?”

The look again. “I would have no idea.”

“Doctor Who. British sci-fi show.”

“I am familiar with it. Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, and Matt—“

“No,” I said. “The new show’s great, but I grew up on the old one. The low-budget, rubber monster show with Tom Baker and Peter Davison. I watched it on PBS all the time as a kid.”

I looked out at the dark ruins of Hollywood, at the stumbling shadows dotting the streets as far as you could see. The only other living person within half a mile was standing behind me, her eyes boring into my head.

“The Doctor didn’t have super-powers or weapons or anything like that. He was just a really smart guy who always tried to do the right thing. To help people, no matter what. That struck me when I was a kid. The idea that no matter how cold and callous and heartless the world seemed, there was somebody out there who just wanted to make life better. Not better for worlds or countries in some vague way. Just better for people trying to live their lives, even if they didn’t know about him.”

I turned back to her and tapped my chest. “That’s what this suit’s always been about. Not scaring people like you or Gorgon do. Not some sort of pseudo-sexual roleplay or repressed emotions. I wear this thing, all these bright colors, because I want people to know someone’s trying to make their lives better. I want to give them hope.”
Peter Clines, Ex-Heroes

“To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.”
Barbara Hurd, Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination

Mirya
“Abbiamo così poche occasioni di felicità, nella vita, che siamo moralmente tenuti ad inseguirle fino in fondo, per rispetto a quelli che non le hanno avute.”
Mirya, Di carne e di carta

Mirya
“«Lo sai perché ho creato il desiderio?»
Si era quasi dimenticata della presenza di D e rispose sovrappensiero: «Per garantire la riproduzione del genere umano?»
«Ma no, per quello sarebbe bastato mandarvi in calore come gli animali. E non spiegherebbe gli omosessuali.»
Si voltò a guardarlo, incuriosita dall’evolversi della conversazione. «Molte religioni sostengono che tu non accetti l’omosessualità...» lo provocò con uno dei pregiudizi che aveva sempre detestato.
«E perché mai l’avrei creata, allora? Io non faccio errori. Beh, tranne la questione della mela, ma si è trattato di un fraintendimento. E qualche problema con i vegetali e altri animali, ma mai con voi. No, io ho creato tutti i tipi di desiderio, eterosessuale ed omosessuale, e sai perché?»
Grace alzò le mani in segno di resa, attendendo la risposta e iniziando in cuor suo a pensare che D non sarebbe stato affatto male come Dio. Forse, all’alba dei tempi, avrebbero dovuto fare delle libere elezioni. O almeno delle audizioni.
«Per farvi riconoscere. Mi sembrava un buon sistema, al tempo, anche se ho avuto dei dubbi già con la storia di Davide e Bestabea...»
«Riconoscere?»
«Tra anime compatibili. Il primo indizio è il desiderio. È quando è anche l’unico, che le anime non sono compatibili, proprio come nella storia di Davide e Bestabea.»”
Mirya, Trentatré

William  James
“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
William James

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