Second Foundation (Foundation, #3)
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product. Finished products are for decadent minds.
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“My novels are going to be interesting and are going to sell and be famous. What’s the use of writing books unless you sell them and become well-known? I don’t want just some old professors to know me. It’s got to be everybody.”
Nicholas
Sounds like how we are all at 14.
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Even lacking telepathy or any of the crudely definite methods of mind touching mind, there is a sufficient clash in atmosphere, in intangible mood, to suffice for despair.
Nicholas
What a description.
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Arcadia Darell, dressed in borrowed clothes, standing on a borrowed planet in a borrowed situation of what seemed even to be a borrowed life, wanted earnestly the safety of the womb. She didn’t know that was what she wanted. She only knew that the very openness of the open world was a great danger. She wanted a closed spot somewhere—somewhere far—somewhere in an unexplored nook of the universe—where no one would ever look.
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He smiled bitterly. Always the same. Always that peering and peering through the opaque granite which, to the enemy, was so transparent.
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Turbor’s lips curled a bit. “You’re counting on the Second Foundation, then?” The answer came with honest surprise. “Well, doesn’t everyone?”
Nicholas
Well that’s…ominous.
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It’s always easy to explain the unknown by postulating a superhuman and arbitrary will.