You know what happens when you keep a dog locked away from every living thing, except you visit once a day and kick the shit out of him?"
Perreault laughed nervously. "Someone actually tried that?"
"What happens is, the dog's a social animal, and it gets so lonely it actually looks forward to the shit-kicking. It asks to be kicked. It begs.
But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.
Peter WattsTag: brain
How do you say 'We come in peace' when the very words are an act of war?
Peter WattsTag: first-contact
What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive?
Peter WattsThe game is never over; there's no finish line this side of heat death.
Peter WattsNot even Lucifer left Heaven until he was pushed.
Peter WattsTag: lucifer
The Zodiac had rearranged itself into a precise grid of bright points with luminous tails. It was as though the whole planet had been caught in some great closing net, the knots of its mesh aglow with St. Elmo's fire. It was beautiful. It was terrifying.
Peter WattsTag: fire st-elmo-s-fire
The only reason we were here was because nobody had yet optimized software for First Contact.
Peter WattsTag: software first-contact
Psychopathy's no disorder in those shoes, eh? Just a survival strategy.
Peter WattsTag: psychopathy
I was just a tattletale for small minds back home.
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