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Mike
is 87% done
“History as a story worth telling will only begin when the whole lives outnumber the wasted ones. That means we have many generations to go before history begins. All the inequalities must end; all the surplus wealth must be equitably distributed. Until then we are still only some kind of gibbering monkey, and humanity, as we usually like to think of it, does not yet exist.”
— Oct 07, 2026 05:41AM
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Mike
is 59% done
“The past reproaches us! So many lives. Slowly we change, oh so slowly. You think it doesn’t happen, but it does.”
— Sep 12, 2026 03:45PM
Mike
is 45% done
“Happy and angry. Happily angry. Everything, all at once. That’s life, boy. You just keep getting fuller, until you burst and Allah takes you and casts your soul into another life later on. And so everything just keeps getting fuller.”
— Aug 31, 2026 03:24PM
Mike
is 13% done
“Think good thoughts. Listen, Kyu, listen—as we think, so we are. Both here and hereafter, in all the worlds. For thoughts are things, the parents of all actions, good and bad alike. And as the sowing has been, so the harvest will be.”
— Aug 24, 2026 07:25PM