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Certainly, a comic sensibility is essential if one is to outmaneuver ubiquitous exploitation and to savor life in a society that seeks to control (and fleece) its members by insisting they take its symbols, institutions, and consumer goods
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“The reaches of the current system may seem inescapable at the moment. Well so was the divine rite of kings not too long ago.”
― Geometry for Ocelots
― Geometry for Ocelots
“The world may be a story, but the plot delivers no catharsis, and the moral the story is trying to get across is far from obvious.”
― Geometry for Ocelots
― Geometry for Ocelots
“History has already happened. We can’t do a damn thing about it. But we can be better. God, we can be better. I believe, as I hope you do, in a time one day—a while from now, but still attainably close—when the curses of poverty, misery, and death will seem as pointlessly tragic and avoidable as scurvy. There is a long way to go yet, but we can get there. We can fucking get there. And it will be an honour to get there with you, or at least continue the brave walk towards adulthood our ancestors began millennia ago. Good luck out there and much, much love. Here come the wild twenties. See you on the other side.”
― Geometry for Ocelots
― Geometry for Ocelots
“I think we like telling stories because for as long as we listen to them, we can forget that the world is harsh and unpredictable, and that history is driving heavily, heavily under the influence. And maybe it’s trying to drive somewhere with good intentions, but more often than not, falls asleep and swerves into an orphanage. Our respective nation’s histories are no different. Our personal histories are no different. But”
― Geometry for Ocelots
― Geometry for Ocelots
“You have proof of this?” Leo said. “Yes. There is a plane above Vex that I have glimpsed only once. There are creatures of some kind who inhabit it, unknowable, unfathomable beings. I believe they are the descendants of those few civilisations who learned that dessert need not be eaten after every meal, that on some evenings only one glass of wine is ample, and that a palace may sleep not just a king, but ten thousand”
― Geometry for Ocelots
― Geometry for Ocelots
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