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Maria felt punch-drunk. At one level, she knew she should stop humoring him, stop treating his ideas seriously. On another, it seemed that if Durham was so wrong, she should be able to point out the reasons why. She shouldn’t have to call him a madman and refuse to listen to another word.
Permutation City
Greg Egan
They argue that the concepts of good defeating evil and morality defeating immorality are innate in humans. And the reason why people suffered was exactly because none of these “innate laws” was kept or respected. That’s why people so impulsively pursued the worldly forms of the Samith; in the finite environment people lived, they dreamed of the infinite...
Chronicles From the Future
Paul Amadeus Dienach and Achilleas Sirigos
Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul.
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
E.M. Forster
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