Perhaps accepting my lot would give me at least the veneer of belonging, a role to play even in negative.
“Boredom is a mask frustration wears.”
― Anathem
― Anathem
“They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.”
― Anathem
― Anathem
“I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!”
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“It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for.”
― Anathem
― Anathem
“Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor... at something doesn't collect what is meaningful to me. I need someone to gather it in with all their senses, mix it round in their head, and make it over into words.”
― Anathem
― Anathem
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