Status Updates From Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

He saw men and women
with flesh hanging in burned strips carrying the dazed
children from the ashes of what once had been a city. Sol
knew that these images were no dreams, were the very stuff
of the First and Second Holocausts, and in his understanding
knew before the voice spoke in his mind what the answer
was. What it must be.


— The parents have offered themselves. That sacrifice already has been
accepte

Can that be Abraham’s answer to God? That he would be the offering,
not Issaac?


— It could have been Abraham's. It cannot be yours.
— Why?


As if in answer, Sol had the fever-vision of naked adults
filing toward the ovens past armed men, mothers hiding
their children under piles of coats. He saw men and women
with flesh hanging in burned strips carrying the dazed
children from the ashes of what once had be

You know something? This talking about yourself In the
third person is sort of therapeutic.

Bruh she’s aging backwards. This so sad