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some misbegotten doctorly instinct
Haha why not?
Haha Mee too
a resoluteness, not quite eagerness, that suggested she had postponed her drinking long enough.
Haha Mee too
Diane had once described my mother’s housekeeping as “linear,” by which I think she meant orderly but not obsessive.
Not everything was in its place. But everything had a place.
E.D.
she was still drawing breath, I thought, or at least processing oxygen,
Haha life support
Haha a dig.
Sooner or later it would fall to me to dispose of the contents of the house, a job I could barely envision, a job more difficult, more preposterous, than the work of cultivating life on another planet.
The top shelf was the attic of my mother’s life.
Simile metaphor
(MARCUS),
the box marked MEMENTOS (SCHOOL) was missing.
some amanuensis
Diane.
Simile - reversal of status.
the household staff at the Big House, whose grief was more authentic and harder to bear.
Haha he’s not a regular drinker
twenty years ago.
Half the time is gone ….
drifting out of NK toward a blander orthodoxy, welcoming the Rapture with piety and self-denial.
“Maybe it’s E.D.’s way of paying tribute to her. Salting the wake with political celebrities.” “That’s a generous way of interpreting it.”
Haha ouch
Another grotesque faux pas, and she pounced on it:
Haha yup
“You’re a generous drunk.”
Haha
she had discovered a different truth, an alternative key to the Lawton mysteries.
the missing MEMENTOS (SCHOOL) seemed to have vanished permanently.
Chilling? Or just mysterious?
Haha
as if my mother’s death had shaken her faith in the fixed stars of the Lawton universe.
Plot driven simile
a squadron of giant robots marching off to some battle in the Mid-Atlantic Trench.
Simile metaphor
“Shotgun ecopoiesis,”
Ecopoiesis refers to the origin of an ecosystem
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming#History_of_scholarly_study
https://en.ecopoiesis.ru
Hard science
Hard science
“What have we lost?” “A lot of money. A lot of manpower.” “I can’t think of a better use for it.
the potential payoff is more than worth the risk.
“But you’ll have misled a lot of ordinary people. Convinced them the Spin is something we can manage, something we can find a technological fix for.”
“Given them hope, you mean.”
If we green the planet we send people.” A much more difficult and ethically complex proposition.
Planetary ethics
Hard science - exogenesis
“the test pilot mentality,”
“photodissociation” and “cryptoendelithic”
the moon landing more than sixty years ago
2029 - 1969 = 60
Simon
NK
it’s a slow Tribulation, Ty.
“Not exactly the Promised Land.” “Yeah, but you know? I don’t think it’s supposed to be.
Maybe we can feel the chiliasm coming,
we still have to play out the last minutes of the game even if the outcome is a foregone conclusion. And maybe we’re being judged on that...
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I would be her platonic buddy.
Simile, broken by the extension
Bad, or just weird, usage of this word.
