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“Maybe reading is a curse is all I mean… Maybe it’s better for a man to stay inside his own mind” (340)

“Engineers are trained to think logically. As a result, they come to believe that all people must think this way, and they design their machines accordingly. When people have trouble, the engineers are upset, but often for the wrong reason… The problem with the designs of most engineers is that they are too logical. We have to accept human behavior the way it is, not the way we would wish it to be” (6)

“He got up and walked out to the road. The black shape of it running from dark to dark. Then a distant low rumble. Not thunder. You could feel it under your feet. A sound without cognate and so without description. Something imponderable shifting out there in the dark. The earth itself contracting with the cold…. The salitter drying from the earth” (261)

“I wasn’t going to kill him, he said. But the boy didn’t answer. They rolled themselves in the blankets and lay there in the dark. He thought he could hear the sea but perhaps it was just the wind. He could tell by his breathing that the boy was awake and after a while the boy said: But we did kill him” (260)

“perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart in another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun” (219)

“The world soon to be largely populated by men who who would eat your children in front of your eyes and the cities themselves held by cores of blackened looters who tunneled among the ruins and crawled from the rubble white of tooth and eye carrying charred and anonymous tins of food in nylon nets like shoppers in the commissaries of hell” (181)