Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.
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Mark Twain once opined in his homey way: ‘The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.’
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‘In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.’