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When the doctor came into the ward for a routine checkup, Luo Ji asked him about the Wallfacer Project. “I know of it. It’s an ancient joke,” the doctor replied off handedly. “What happened to the Wallfacers?” “I think one of them committed suicide, and another was stoned to death.… It all happened in the project’s early days, and it’s been nearly
... See moreCixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
“It’s absurd” means “It’s impossible” but also “It’s contradictory.” If I see a man armed only with a sword attack a group of machine guns, I shall consider his act to be absurd. But it is so solely by virtue of the disproportion between his intention and the reality he will encounter, of the contradiction I notice between his true strength and the
... See moreAlbert Camus • The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)
everything was in balance and then something changed. it’s heartbreaking isn’t it? the trees are dying. is it some sort of decease? no. it’s the dust disappearing. it’s just flooding out of the world. thought, imagination, feeling, all blowing away. this beautiful place where the people are kinder and wiser than us by far and it’s just dying. what ... See more
The tyranny of the quantifiable is partly the failure of language and discourse to describe more complex, subtle, and fluid phenomena, as well as the failure of those who shape opinions and make decisions to understand and value these slipperier things. It is difficult, sometimes even impossible, to value what cannot be named or described, and so t
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