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There Is No Antimemetics Division

by qntm (Goodreads Author)

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The Imposters: A Novel

by Tom Rachman (Goodreads Author)

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Perfection

by Vincenzo Latronico

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Can nothing be ever truly expressed, rendered in its anonymous becoming, can no one ever render the babbling of the nascent moment, how is it that, born out of chaos, we can never encounter it again, no sooner do we look than order . . . ...more

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The Glass Hotel

by Emily St. John Mandel

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Jan’s Quotes

“People aren’t the apex species they think they are. Other creatures-bigger, smaller, slower, faster, older, younger, more powerful-call the shots, make the air, and eat sunlight. Without them, nothing.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

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“Be grateful for anything that still cuts. Dissonance is a beauty that familiarity hasn't destroyed yet.”
― Richard Powers, Orfeo

tags: cuts, dissonance, familiarity

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“You can’t come back to something that is gone.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

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“We actually contain a built-in ability to rise above restriction, incapacity, or limitation and, as a result of this ability, possess a vital adaptive spirit that we have not yet fully accessed. While this ability can lead us to transcendence, paradoxically it can lead also to violence; our longing for transcendence arises from our intuitive sensing of this adaptive potential and our violence arises from our failure to develop it.”
― Joseph Chilton Pearce, The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit

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“What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas’d the moment life appear’d. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
― Richard Powers, Orfeo

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