Sea of Tranquility

by Emily St. John Mandel

There’s a low-level, specific pain in having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones.

When have we ever believed that the world wasn’t ending?

“What if it always is the end of the world?”

if definitive proof emerges that we’re living in a simulation, the correct response to that news will be So what. A life lived in a simulation is still a life. 9