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“And we lived in a world that was evil. A world that is was like a great black ship pulling away from the shore of sanity and civilization, roaring its black horn in the night, taking two billion people with it, whether they wanted to go or not, to death, to fall over the edge of the earth and the sea into radioactive flame and madness.”

You sense my loneliness, my bitterness at being shut out of life. My bitterness that I’m evil, that I don’t deserve to be loved and yet I need love hungrily.

Thank you, but I would rather suffer, rather dry up like a husk with teeth.

“You have to pass away from what failed you into what can sustain you. Otherwise—there is no hope.”

And human as Orpheus perhaps, I stopped and glanced back.

If citizenship is a matter of shared beliefs, then I believe in the democracy of species. If citizenship means an oath of loyalty to a leader, then I choose the leader of the trees. If good citizens agree to uphold the laws of the nation, then I choose natural law, the law of reciprocity, of regeneration, of mutual flourishing.

“But in fact I didn’t want to cool down: what I desired was to live in the moment until I wore it out.”

“Also because ever since she was little she’d known how to play every role.”

By god his prose is anything but gripping