Status Updates From Distress

He really didn't like "Young Einstein," did he?

Promising so far.

Por ahora he visto algunos detalles interesantes.

'Afternoon sunlight slanted across the ward and brushed the side of my face, bridging distance, energy, scale, complexity. This was not a reason for terror. It was not a reason for awe. It was the most ordinary thing imaginable.'

'Muteba had his eccentricities, his three biographers concurred, with a leaning toward Nietzschean metaphysics, fringe cosmology, and dramatic conspiracy theories -- including the old one that "El Nido de Ladrones," the bioengineered haven built by drug runners on the Peruvian-Colombian border, had been H-bombed in 2035 not because the modified forest was out of control . . . [continued below]

'Freud had saddled Western culture with the bizarre notion that the least considered utterances were always, magically, the truest -- that reflection added nothing, and the ego merely censored or lied. It was an idea born more of convenience than anything else: he'd identified the part of the mind easiest to circumvent [. . .] and then declared the product of all that remained to be "honest." '

This book is why Egan is one of my favorite Sci-fi authors - when he's not writing about non-human entities as the main characters.