Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

“No. No, Donner’s just a kind of human banister.” “A what?” “I mean he’s like… like a symbol of the past for us to hold on to as we’re pushed into the future.

This business sounds half antebellum revival and half science fiction. I don’t trust it.

We’ll have to be very careful how we allow our needs to shape us.