Geometry for Ocelots

by Exurb1a

Technology? What technology could stand up to greed?

They’d sooner forget the word for fire than fetch a single damn bucket to put their burning houses out.”

More a woman playing at what a child might think a god.

He believes our race is entitled to every world in the galaxy, and that the secret of our endurance is in absolute expansion. Such a philosophy might be admirable were we not living in a galaxy of limited resources.”

Those clever folk made themselves into things that were not folk, into things that did not age, that did not sleep, that did not sweat or fail. They outdid their own mythologies.

Ursula yelled at the sky for a while.

And that atoms were made of electrons and quarks and apeirons.

Also: Never buy cheap socks. Dance when you can. You’ll know when you’re in love. If you have to check, you’re not.

The three of them would stay up until Ursula’s sunrise turned the city purple.

“The era of false gods is over. Nothing is sacred and everything is possible.”

Leo collapsed in the dirt and was grateful that at least the dirt persisted.

So, whatever happens next, allow yourself to be warmed, if only for a minute, by the knowledge that not even the gods know what dirt is doing here.”

Science did not kill magic. Yes, we've had to dispense with spells and incantations. Yes, the universe is more apathetic than previously supposed. But in return for accepting these losses, we have gained a picture of the world so unfathomably beautiful and mysterious that if God truly existed, He Himself could not fathom it.

“We played king and queen, didn’t we? Do you remember?”