Kindle Notes & Highlights
like someone daintily rearranging flowers in her head.
Khouri did her best to act normally, as if the question were reasonable, and not one which had gone off in her cranium like a magnesium flare.
Haven’t you ever had it happen to you that someone wakes you abruptly from a dream, and yet somehow their actions were incorporated into the dream’s narrative, long before they actually woke you? You know what I mean: your dog licks your face to wake you, and in your dream you fall overboard from a ship into the sea. Yet you’d been on that ship for the entirety of the dream.”
All I know is that I think, and therefore I’m exceedingly angry.”
was a distinct advantage, hastening the process by which he negated the outside world.
“Like frontline soldiers defecting before they’ve even heard any propaganda,” Khouri said.
If they were machines, they must have been exploiting some hazy state of quantum reality, where concepts like heat and energy dissolved into uncertainty.
