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The central theme of Adjustment Team is that reality is malleable and changeable and that there is a team of bureaucrats whose role it is to make small ‘adjustments’ to ensure that this reality runs smoothly and to plan.
"The Blue Men of Time", Twilight Zone? Sounds very familiar.
The hollow men, he thought. We should have looked up poetry.’
‘I’m not much but I’m all I have.’
ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.’
‘orthogonal’. The term literally means ‘right-angled’ but by extension has come to refer to something that acts separately or independently from other factors.
cryptomnesia?
What a cryptic name for the wonder of recall.
‘Everything in life is just for a while.’
In order to accommodate his own extreme beliefs, his more rational personality has split off and acts as a dispassionate observer of seemingly crazy behaviour.
Therr are no more rational personalities left in this universe.
if I weren’t so well integrated, I’d be out of my mind!”’
It is we who do the moving, not time.
It’s called anamnesis, which was the loss of amnesia. You remembered your origins, and they were from beyond the stars.’
So I experienced first spaces too small and then spaces too large.’
