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Rey Diaz lived underground not out of any concern for security, but because of his heliophobia. The claustrophobic environment, far removed from the sunshine, made him feel a little more comfortable. He watched the live broadcast of the Mercury test from the basement where he lived. It wasn’t actually live, since the images took about seven minutes
... See moreCixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
He looked at the human beings he had chained up and noted that they seemed to be the type of people who wore chains. So unlike other people. Frighteningly unlike! Later, in his cotton fields, he had them whipped and then made them go back to work and thought, They can’t possibly feel as we do. You can whip them and they go back to work. And having
... See moreZadie Smith • Intimations: Six Essays
“But what we did not render obsolete was the fear humans have of other minds.
Ray Nayler • The Mountain in the Sea
On September 12, 2013, I reported Avomeen’s results in an article titled “How Chris McCandless Died,” which was published on The New Yorker website.
Jon Krakauer • Into the Wild
