Sublime

All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change.

rictus

fulcrum,

But then the story says, “Well, hold on; isn’t one quality of a harsh system that it deforms the people within it and makes them complicit in their own destruction?” (Which is another way of saying: “Let’s not forget that Marya is a human being, and complicated, and susceptible to error.”)

This was a human moment that never went away. An existential dilemma, a permanent condition. For them, in their particular situation, it came to this: When you discover that you are living in a fantasy that cannot endure, a fantasy that will destroy your world, and your children, what do you do?

intransigent,

The ultimate fate of all intelligent beings has always been to become as grand as their thoughts.

inchoate.