Lemec

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Lemec.


The Truth About T...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Loading...
Alan             Moore
“Thermodynamic miracles... events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing.
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermodynamic miracle.

But...if me, my birth, if that's a thermodynamic miracle... I mean, you could say that about anybody in the world!.

Yes. Anybody in the world. ..But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget... I forget. We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from the another's vantage point. As if new, it may still take our breath away. Come...dry your eyes. For you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly. Dry your eyes... and let's go home.”
Alan Moore, Watchmen
tags: life

176000 Multiverse--Michael Moorcock — 147 members — last activity Apr 06, 2025 11:10PM
This is a group to discuss the works of the British Author Michael Moorcock and topics related to his writings and interests. Currently, much of the c ...more
year in books
Joe Dea...
917 books | 180 friends

Anthony
843 books | 11 friends

Daniel
984 books | 61 friends

Karl
6,989 books | 1,599 friends

Wiredwu...
0 books | 9 friends

Fammann
868 books | 2 friends

Ken Boo...
33 books | 121 friends





Polls voted on by Lemec

Lists liked by Lemec