Status Updates From The Dazzle of Day

I’m not going to finish this one! Can’t get into it!

"But they went on suffering from a vague, irrational hope that if everything, every mystery of the New World, could be examined and known, then they would reach an understanding of how they felt about it." Gloss is very good at portraying human nature while also imagining the science fictional details and logistics.

"For 175 years they had gone on talking and thinking and making ready for leaving this world. They had lived for 175 years in a kind of suspended state, a continual waiting for change, but it was a balanced and deep-grounded condition, an equilibrium. They knew their world, root and branch, knew its history and its economies.... Some people thought they had lived for 175 years in a world that was a kind of Eden."