The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Book 2)

Mahan’s theory of sea power

Without the fear of heights, there can be no appreciation for the beauty of high places.

astute

unprecedented

The past was like a handful of sand you thought you were squeezing tightly, but which had already run out through the cracks between your fingers. Memory was a river that had run dry long ago, leaving only scattered gravel in a lifeless riverbed. He had lived life always looking out for the next thing, and whenever he had gained, he had also lost,

garrulous.

But it wasn’t a language of this world. It constructed a world that gave it meaning, and only in that rosy world did the words of the language find their corresponding referents.

seem to remember a line Yang Wen-li said in Legend of the Galactic Heroes:*11 ‘In

unfilial,