Status Updates From Foundation and Empire (Foun...

i feel so big brained for calling it wowowowowow

"Those of the Foundation [...] realized only that in a world of transition from a gutted old to a strenous new this area was a quiet, graceful museum-peace of ancient grace. They were intruders in a sense. The brooding emptiness rejected them. The academic atmosphere seemed still to live and to stir angrily at the disturbance."

not to be corny and academia larping but there was something really beautiful about this