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Book: The Memory of Whiteness: A Scientific Romance
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  1. Kim Stanley Robinson _ The Memory of Whiteness: A

    Genius is not a matter of intelligence, but of spirit; and we cannot speak accurately of the spirit in any language but music.
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  2. Kim Stanley Robinson _ The Memory of Whiteness: A

    But it is an orchestra," I say. "It's an imitation orchestra-an orchestrion, an orchestrina-whatever you call it, it does a terrible job! All you've done is turn a sublime group achievement, a human act, into an inferior egotistical solo-
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  3. Kim Stanley Robinson _ The Memory of Whiteness: A

    So you attempt what De Bruik attempted, in her Free Radical Binds to Macromolecule." "We all attempt what De Bruik attempted, in one way or another." In Free Radical De Bruik had represented the macromolecule, an RNA strand, as a passacaglia, a ground base repeated again and again, in patterns of four that alternated regularly. This was a simple icon, a metaphor in which the repeated ground base stood for the repeated proteins in the RNA; fine. And the free radical's part was a test for any trumpet player.
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  4. Kim Stanley Robinson _ The Memory of Whiteness: A

    Dent recognized it; the intermezzo before the last movement of De Bruik's Human Biology. The finale of the symphony was a standard concert opener in the outer worlds. Soon the crackling of superamplified muscle contractions and the rush of adrenaline into the bloodstream announced the shift to the finale, and the crowd cheered wildly; Dent could feel his blood surging through him-
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  5. Kim Stanley Robinson _ The Memory of Whiteness: A

    Life itself is a moment like this, the soul beat down and held to knowledge: you keep on trudging upward, the goal shifts in and out of sight, always further away than you expected, and the work is hard and unremitting. And the questions are the same as always: What are you doing? Is it the right thing? Should you go back? - Nothing up here but the same answers, stripped bare of all complication: Just walk. Keep hiking. That's all you can do. That is your destiny.
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