... a society devoted to self-destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.
Dan SimmonsTag: ecology indulgence self-destruction
... primitive times had required primitive obedience, that later generations evolved to the point where parents offered themselves as sacrifice - as in the dark knights of the ovens which pocked old earth history - and that current generations had to deny any command for sacrifice. Sol had written that whatever God now took in human consciousness - whether as a mere manifestation of the subconscious in all its revanchist needs or as a more conscious attempt at philosophical and ethical evolution - humankind could no longer agree to offer up sacrifice in God's name. Sacrifice and the agreement to sacrifice had written human history in blood.
Dan SimmonsTag: ethics philosophy god obedience
The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer
Dan SimmonsTag: humankind cancer natural-order
Context is to data what water is to a dolphin
Dan SimmonsFinding a woman like that amidst the herd of half-feeling, half-caring, half-responding, females in our society of 1860's England was not so much like finding a diamond in the rough as it was finding a warm responsive body amidst the cold dead forms on slabs in the Paris morgue that Dickens had so enjoyed taking me to.
Dan SimmonsQuality wine, Scotch, and coffee had been the three irreplaceable commodities after the death of Old Earth.
Dan SimmonsMeaning no disrespect, sir, but there's no way in the Good Lord's fucking universe that anyone can bar accidents or the unexpected.
Dan SimmonsHe loved the darkness and the mystery of the Catholic service--the tall priest strutting like a carrion crow and pronouncing magic in a dead language, the immediate magic of the Eucharist bringing the dead back to life so that the faithful could devour Him and become of Him, the smell of incense and the mystical chanting.
Dan SimmonsTag: christianity religion language jesus magic ritual mysticism catholicism
Men who read a lot have a more sensitive disposition, added Fowler. [...]
I did not know what to say to this.
Maybe reading is a sort of curse is all I mean, concluded Fowler. Maybe it's better for a man to stay inside his own mind.
Amen, I felt like saying, although I do not know why.
Tag: reading books men melancholy inner-world
The words sounded like a mournful incantation.
Dan SimmonsTag: words melancholy language magic incantation
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