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Communication was breaking down by that point, the whole world reduced to a rumor, and I stopped listening.
Who were we without people who would come after us?
The sun brightened Pearl’s hair to the color of a flame and her hair tossed in the wind like a flickering candle.
Yuck this sentence is terrible!
Daniel stood so close I could smell him, that familiar scent of wood smoke and some dark flower that grew at the roots of trees. Like a forest in autumn.
Argh.
“There was this theory, over two hundred years ago, called the Gaia hypothesis. Essentially that all living matter on earth works together to create life, to make earth habitable. A regulation among matter to fight disorder. Life can’t exist without fighting disorder.”
Do all natural things but man conspire toward life, but man alone has a death drive? If life exists to fight disorder, will violence and disorder evolve right alongside us, the shadow that we need to keep breathing? If rage is a reaction to disorder, does that make rage the original life force?”
maybe not the original, but definitely the one that formed when we left "the garden". Steve Taylor's The Fall was a great read on this.
