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When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.
John Scalzi Lock In
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In John Scalzi's book "Lock In," the protagonist navigates a world affected by a pandemic that causes a significant percentage of the population to be locked in their bodies. This condition leads to a unique societal situation where technology allows individuals to transfer their consciousness into robotic bodies, exploring themes of identity and connection. The narrative intertwines mystery and technology, providing a gripping commentary on human experience.

The quote, "When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else," captures a common youthful longing for adventure and escape. It reflects the desire to break free from the confines of one's environment, much like the characters in "Lock In" seek freedom from their physical limitations. This sentiment resonates with readers, highlighting the universal struggle between yearning for change and confronting reality.

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John Scalzi Lock In
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Did she tell you I set puppies on fire, too? Vann asked. She did not, I said. It may have been implied.
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I've been told my liminal space is like the dark of the grave. But I think of it as the dark from the other end of life entirely. The dark of everything ahead, not everything behind.
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In recalling my childhood I like to picture myself as a beehive to which various simple obscure people brought the honey of their knowledge and thoughts on life, generously enriching my character with their own experience. Often this honey was dirty and bitter, but every scrap of knowledge was honey all the same.
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A child is asleep. Her private life unwinds inside skin and skull; only as she sheds childhood, first one decade and then another, can she locate the actual, historical stream, see the setting of her dreaming private life-the nation, the city, the neighborhood, the house where the family lives-as an actual project under way, a project living people willed, and made well or failed, and are still making, herself among them. I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.
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For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shifts a little for them and Christmas comes round in the end. But they don't feel it. Today is what they feel, and when they say 'When I grow up,' there is always an edge of disbelief-how could they ever be other than what they are?
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For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shifts a little for them and Christmas comes round in the end. But they don't feel it. Today is what they feel, and when they say 'When I grow up,' there is always an edge of disbelief-how could they ever be other than what they are?
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