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what on earth am I reading???

"People had a choice. They could continue wandering through the endless darkness, an absence of everything they loved, an endless void of disappointment and loneliness...or they could look down, and embrace what they always had and loved."

What would you do what infinite time? Change continuously or stay the same? When there are no stakes for "something better" there is much comfort in constancy...

Everyone had what they needed, nobody got sick, but they found that they things to just be a little bit difficult sometimes…They decided to leave their existence just a little short of perfect, because they wanted to want.


Love the snippets of wisdom littered throughout this journey of a book

i accidentally started this story (i thought the website was a very good commercial for the book) but i’m superrr intrigued, definitely will finish it this weekend 🧘‍♀️

“If they advanced too much further technologically, those advances would inevitably intrude on their humanity. People wanted to walk. They wanted to take the bus that smelled like cigarettes. They wanted those precious three minutes between asking a question and knowing the answer.”

—Every little square of it, every place you stomp your foot, that's where something happened. Something wild, maybe something nobody knows about, but something. You can fall out of the sky and right into some forgotten storybook.
You run and run and run and you keep turning pages and none of them are empty. They're all full of stories. There's nowhere left to write.
I think Im just a bookmark.

—Seems okay to me

“Then I went to school, got a job, you know, you get busy. And it’s…
Who was it who said, uh, “even if life is forever, each moment of it is a miracle?” I think that’s just something we tell ourselves. We’re just ordinary and forever, I think. There’s a levelling out that happens if you live forever and ever without anything to lose.”

“It’s hard to explain. I would say I have so many questions, but I’m not even at that point yet. I don’t know what questions to ask. I don’t know what this is. I don’t understand where I am. Is where the word? Is this a where sort of deal?”

i was bored of the chapter but the god pamphlet is a really funny bit actually

That was beautiful