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Kim Stanley Robinson
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Icehenge
he was a sort of dully furious Soviet bureaucrat, a petty man used to giving orders and being obeyed.
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There have been mass delusions larger than this," I said, "following a fanatic leader.
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When memory fails to contain us we must love the past more than ever, to hold it to us-or else the present becomes a meaningless blaze of color and sound, in which no two humans, great elongate beings, will be able to do more than touch at their very lips, their spatial selves-no one will ever truly understand another. To love the past is to become fully human.
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Kim Stanley Robinson
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What does it mean to love the past? Each day disappears into nothingness, and we must live every moment of our lives in the present. The present is the whole of reality. But human beings are more than real. We plunge through the years like giants, as the poet said, and not one of us can be understood except as creatures continuously exfoliating. When memory fails to contain us we must love the past more than ever, to hold it to us-or else the present becomes a meaningless blaze of color and sound, in which no two humans, great elongate beings, will be able to do more than touch at their very lips, their spatial selves-no one will ever truly understand another. To love the past is to become fully human.
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Kim Stanley Robinson
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It is a form of grace to become nothing but a task"-Hjalmar Nederland from Kim Stanley Robinson's "Icehenge
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We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.
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Kim Stanley Robinson
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And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them.
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It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped."
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