Cloud Atlas

by David Mitchell

We are only what we know, and I wished to be much more than I was, sorely.

The learnin’ mind is the livin’ mind, Meronym said, an’ any sort o’ Smart is truesome Smart, old Smart or new, high Smart or low.

tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only “rights,” the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.

tidy xtermination of a fabricant underclass.

nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

What wouldn’t I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

“It’s a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.”

What precipitates outcomes? Vicious acts & virtuous acts. What precipitates acts? Belief.