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On the back was the ultimate symbol of the ancients’ hubris and blasphemy—an apple with a bite taken out of it.
“What was lost in the Cloud?,” “Tombstone inscriptions
All civilisations consider themselves invulnerable; history warns us that none is.
He wished he could unsee what he had read, but knowledge alters everything, and he knew that was impossible.
History was a patchwork of voids.
An entire generation’s correspondence and memories had vanished into this mysterious entity the antiquarians called “the Cloud.”
As surely as a man might catch the sweating fever, he thought, I have been infected with the heresy of antiquarianism.
They would have been able to communicate more easily, and across vast distances, using their strange devices with the symbol of the bitten apple. But would they have had anything wiser to say, or would their local vices merely have been spread more widely?
“Faith that cannot withstand the truth is not a faith worth holding.”
