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“I think I’ve reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level, if that’s what you mean.”
“Just the usual human babble, in other words.” “Yes. We take it with us wherever we go.”
“The human capacity for grief. It just isn’t capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn’t just level off—it just gives up, resets itself to zero.
Pottery endures. Microcircuits crumble to dust.
relativistic weapons,
all so neatly predictable. And there was the trap.
reciting the argument of a devil’s advocate, saying it aloud only to better illuminate its heresies.
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never expend any more energy—or intelligence—against an enemy than is absolutely appropriate to the situation at hand, just as you never play your best card first in a poker game. You wait, until the stakes justify it.”
“It’s an ancient technique known as lying,
