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October 13 - November 29, 2020
“History’s not over, you see. It’s happening all the time.
“You won’t understand anything about the imagination until you realize that it’s not about making things up, it’s about perception.
The other side’s got an energy that our side en’t got. Comes from their certainty about being right. If you got that certainty, you’ll be willing to do anything to bring about the end you want. It’s the oldest human problem, Lyra, an’ it’s the difference between good and evil. Evil can be unscrupulous, and good can’t. Evil has nothing to stop it doing what it wants, while good has one hand tied behind its back. To do the things it needs to do to win, it’d have to become evil to do ’em.”
“What we call reality is nothing but a gathering of flimsy similarities held together by habit.”
Reason had brought her to this state. She had exalted reason over every other faculty. The result had been—was now—the deepest unhappiness she had ever felt.
She’d hardly been aware of feeling anxious, but that was because anxiety was everywhere, built into the very molecules of the world, or so it had seemed.
Being invisible was hard work, unrewarding, soul-crushing work.