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I gathered up my luggage and staggered barefoot into the starry night.
Nice sentence
Molly Seagram
Mrs. Tuckman
“patient continues to complain of nervousness, fears for future.” Didn’t we all fear for the future?
Haha
CVWS—cardiovascular wasting syndrome—
Haha
Haha
The whole world was reeling with anxiety.
no future but the Spin.
Haha
in third world nations, where collapsing currencies and recurrent famine helped revive slumbering Marxist and militant Islamic movements.
only those who have lost faith in the future are likely to show up at work with an automatic rifle and a hit list.
For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom.
there is hardly an area of Spin study his ideas haven’t touched and transformed.
A cheap shot, too hackneyed, and within the story and character, E.D. doesn’t need to do that.
both major parties had spun off radical factions.
Suddenly it’s okay for a major media outlet to take shots at Perihelion.”
a monument to the human ability to squeeze profit from a global catastrophe.”
How? With E.D. and Jason calling the shots?
Molly turned out to be smart, sly, cynical, and better company than I had expected.
An ace! (asexual)
in many ways Jason Lawton, like Perihelion itself, remains under the stifling influence of his father.
Haha
I seem to have lost the memory. Lost it to time, lost it to the reconstruction.
Haha
a child. A horribly burned child in desperate need of a skin graft: that was my first impression.
Simile triple
The creature
Wun Ngo Wen,
colonists we had dispatched only two years ago.
To solve the proportion 5.5:500,000,000 = 2:X for X, you can cross multiply.
5.5 * X = 2 * 500,000,000 (per Jason, p. 40)
Solving this equation gives:
5.5X = 1,000,000,000
X = 1,000,000,000 / 5.5
X ≈ 181,818,182
Therefore, X is approximately 181,818,182.
a Sparkmonth
the Kirioloj River,
his Fourth Age
he was trained to represent the Five Republics on a diplomatic mission to Earth.
The Martians were conservators by nature, hoarders by instinct.
boxlike structures quietly constructing themselves hundreds of miles above the Martian poles—Hypothetical artifacts, nearly identical to the ones associated with the Earth.
After a hundred thousand years of undisturbed solitude,
A hundred thousand relative to what? See note p. 144 re: “colonists we had dispatched only two years ago.”
the crude iron-and-ceramic multistage rocket
No metals?
both human worlds:
Dreadful as death might be,
his brooding custodianship of a tiny machine falling endlessly throu...
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Animal Disease Center on Plum Island,
Haha
Embermonth
Huld of Phraya,
Haha I’ll bet.
the two human worlds.
Haha - Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein’s protgnist was a Martian too.
the brute craziness of the times.
Dionysian cults sprang up everywhere in the western world,
It was the Tribulation reconfigured as Elizabethan drama.
Haha Simile metaphor
