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Beyond Illusion
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Richard Powers
“Smartphones are miracles, and they’ve turned us into gods. But in one simple respect, they’re primitive: you can’t slam down the receiver.”
Richard Powers, Bewilderment

Richard Powers
“There it was: roll the dice and find your life catalyzed by another, one who, ten minutes later or three seats farther down at another computer screen, would have remained an undetected signal from deep space.”
Richard Powers, Bewilderment

Richard Powers
“wanted to tell the man that everyone alive on this fluke little planet was on the spectrum. That’s what a spectrum is. I wanted to tell the man that life itself is a spectrum disorder, where each of us vibrated at some unique frequency in the continuous rainbow.”
Richard Powers, Bewilderment

Richard Powers
“How would we ever know aliens? We can’t even know birds.”
Richard Powers, Bewilderment

Richard Powers
“The laws that govern the light from a firefly in my backyard as I write these words tonight also govern the light emitted from an exploding star one billion light-years away. Place changes nothing. Nor does time. One set of fixed rules runs the game, in all times and places. That's as big a truth as we Earthling have discovered, or ever will, in our brief run.”
Richard Powers, Bewilderment

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