Decalog 5 - Wonders Quotes

“And so, as night chases the sun from Desert, Man moves, motionless, into the future, shaping the world and shaped by it, his presence defining Desert's stories as the stories define Desert.
He moves as an amphibian killer destroys cities with dreams, slows as a regiment of artists raid history's corpse, stumbles as men lactate and machines are incarcerated for speaking the truth, dies as understanding deafens a world with whispers. His life shed in the storm of his own desire.”
― Nakula Somana, Decalog 5 - Wonders

“. . . Much was made of the fact that Yuri Gagarin was an ordinary citizen of the Soviet Union. He was born in the Gzhatsk District of Smolensk and entered secondary school in 1941. But his studies were interrupted by the German invasion. After World War Two Gagarin's family moved back to Gzhatsk, where Yuri resumed his studies. In 1951 he graduated with honours from a vocational school in the town of Lyubersy, near Moscow. He received a foundryman's certificate. He then studied at an industrial technical school in Saratov, on the Volga, from which he graduated with honours in 1955. It was while attending the industrial school that the man who would be the first to fly in space took his first steps in aviation, when he commenced a course of training at the Saratov Aero Club in 1955 . . .”
― Stephen Baxter, Decalog 5 - Wonders

“The River of Stars is dying. Desert is all that remains.
Desert remembers the universe but Desert, too, will pass away.
The country of Man is dying. Oasis is all that remains.
Man remembers Desert's stories but Mankind, too, must pass away.
Every night there are fewer stars. Every day there are fewer stories.
Desert is dying. Man is dying.
Who will remember? Who will remember?”
― Nakula Somana, Decalog 5 - Wonders