Aurora

by Kim Stanley Robinson

Ah, another metaphor. They really are all over. But somehow the narrative problem remains. Possibly even gets worse.

HAha i love this style of narrrative..

they told her; this was youth. Every age had its losses, they said, even youth, which lost first childhood, then youth too. And all first things were vivid, including losses. “Just keep learning,” the old woman said.

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“You get what you give, and not only that, the giving is already the getting. So don’t hold back. Don’t look back or forward too much. Just be there where you are now. You’re always only in the day you’re in.”

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existential nausea must be to a certain extent a universal experience,

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However, recall that every human lives under pressure. Every human feels various kinds of stress. Then things happen.”

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Anytime people do something consciously for the last time, Samuel Johnson is reported to have remarked, they feel sad. So it appeared now.

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Wherever you go, there we are.

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Something about it compels attention, and rewards attention. That attention is what we call love. Affection, esteem, a passionate caring. At that point, the consciousness that is feeling the love has the universe organized for it as if by a kind of polarization. Then the giving is the getting. The feeling of attentiveness itself is an immediate reward. One gives.

People like him will always exist, and they don’t matter. Don’t you see? They just don’t matter. Fools will always be with us. You have to leave them to it, and find your own way.”