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Book cover for Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
The penultimate chapter will lay out how some of today’s florid outbursts of irrationality may be understood as the rational pursuit of goals other than an objective understanding of the world.
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Dan Simmons
“In the first century after the Big Mistake”
Dan Simmons, Hyperion

Milan Kundera
“Her feeling was rather that, given the nature of the human couple, the love of man and woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog, that oddity of human history probably unplanned by the Creator. It is a completely selfless love: Tereza did not want anything of Karenin; she did not ever ask him to love her back. Nor had she ever asked herself the questions that plague human couples: Does he love me? Does he love anyone more than me? Does he love me more than I love him? Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera
“He was immediately seconded by several other Frenchmen. The interpreter was frightened and did not dare translate what they said. So the twenty Americans on the podium looked on once more with smiles full of good will, many nodding agreement. One of them even lifted his fist in the air because he knew Europeans liked to raise their fists in times of collective euphoria.”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Jasper Fforde
“There were two types of ads. Some were from parents eager to offer a shedload of merits to marry off their children up-color, such as this one: 21-yr female (R: 32.2%, Y: 12%), strong virtues. Handsome and helpful, with impressive feedback rating. Seeks Chromogentsia-plus family. Brings 4,125 merits and 47 sheep. Delivery negotiable, option to refuse retained. Viewing at Ochre-in-the-Vale, PO6 5AD. On the other side of the coin were parents willing to trade down-Spectrum in order to receive a shedload of merits, like this dodgy chap:”
Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

“Great works of uncommon genius will call for us to return to their worlds again and again, enticing us to pour our passion and enthusiasm into them so that time may continue to cycle and progress, beloved characters may return to life, and the universes may continue to evolve and develop, without cease.”
Baoshu, The Redemption of Time

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