The Anomaly

by Hervé Le Tellier

The lowest trash always have the option of taking refuge in patriotism.

“Nobody lives long enough to know just how little interest anybody takes in anybody.”

Maybe life begins the moment we know we don’t have one. What difference would it make for them, after all? Simulated or not, we all live, feel, love, suffer, create, and die, each leaving our own tiny trace in the simulation. What point is there in knowing? We should always favor mystery over science. Ignorance is a good traveling companion, and the truth never produces happiness. We might as well be simulated and happy.

I think the United States of America is just a name now. There have always been two Americas, and now they don’t understand each other. Seeing as I tend to identify with one of them, I don’t understand the other one either.”

I still don’t really like the word ‘destiny.’ It’s just a target that people draw after the fact, in the place where the arrow landed.”