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"Everywhere I look I see things that were used. They were touched and handled for centuries. Ask me, then, if I believe in the spirit of the things as they were used, and I'll say yes. All the things which had uses. All the mountains which had names. And we'll never be able to use them without feeling uncomfortable. And somehow the mountains will never sound right to us; we'll give them new names...
— Nov 19, 2020 11:25AM
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...but the old names are there, somewhere in time, and the mountains were shaped and seen under those names. No matter how we touch Mars, we'll never touch it. And we'll get mad at it, and we'll rip the skin off, and change it to fit ourselves. We'll call the canal the Rockefeller Canal and the mountain King George Mountain and the sea the Dupont Sea, and it won't ever be right, when there are the proper names..."
— Nov 19, 2020 11:28AM
