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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.
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.
(MARCUS),
the box marked MEMENTOS (SCHOOL) was missing.
some amanuensis
Diane.
the household staff at the Big House, whose grief was more authentic and harder to bear.
drifting out of NK toward a blander orthodoxy, welcoming the Rapture with piety and self-denial.
Another grotesque faux pas, and she pounced on it:
she had discovered a different truth, an alternative key to the Lawton mysteries.
“Shotgun ecopoiesis,”
“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.”
“the test pilot mentality,”
“photodissociation” and “cryptoendelithic”
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.

