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“I shall take that as meaning I am not being too hopelessly foolish.”
“You may still be, but then so may I.”
“Yes, well, let’s not make a competition out of it.”
The Hydrogen Sonata (2013)
He, Tik…hated clashing, atonal music. He was basically…taking the piss, showing how…easy it was to write…how difficult to…listen to.
The Hydrogen Sonata (2013)
We really are taking this person’s existence as being a fact, not a myth?
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We are. It turns out that the myth which has been so carefully fostered is that his existence is mythical.
The Hydrogen Sonata (2013)
Of course there were doubts about it, there always had been; when you found out about all the other holy books there had ever been throughout the histories of other peoples throughout the galaxy, you realised how common they were, and how fallible, how restricted they were by the usual tribal prejudices and traditions of the people who – it took real blind faith not to accept – had made them up.
The Hydrogen Sonata (2013)
“So why are we bothering?”
“Just in case.”
“Just in case what?”
“Just in case it turns out to be something we should have bothered about. Always try to avoid setting up future opportunities for kicking yourself.”
The Hydrogen Sonata (2013)
All of which might make things a little difficult operationally
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Understood. Life is limitations.
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And glibness, patently, on occasion, too. Your pardon, but I sense motions being gone through.
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On occasion, a superfluity of assiduousness can be vulgar.
The Hydrogen Sonata (2013)
The Real – with its vast volumes of nothing between the planets, stars, systems and galaxies – was basically mostly vacuum; an averaged near-nothing incapable of true complexity due to its inescapable impoverishment of structure and the sheer overwhelming majority of nothingness over substance.
The Hydrogen Sonata (2013)
~My full name is the Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath. Cool, eh?
The Hydrogen Sonata (2013)