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Axis (Spin, #2) Axis by Robert Charles Wilson
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“[A]ll the...people who visited me out of a sense of duty, who were relentlessly sympathetic and secretly indifferent.”
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“Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.”
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“What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.”
Robert Charles Wilson, Axis
“Brian took her hand a final time, then turned and walked away. Lise sat at the table a while longer. The cooling air from the patio was pleasant. The stars were coming out. Mahmud poured coffee from a silver carafe. What we cannot remember, we must rediscover. “I’m sorry—did you say something?” “I said, it’s getting dark.” Mahmud smiled. “It’s these sunsets. Seems like they go on forever.”
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“The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.”
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“Turk tried to study the crowd of Fourths, but the light was behind them and they weren’t much more than silhouettes.”
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“feckless ants.”
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“They want to touch God.”
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“He opened his eyes and the irises were newly discolored, as if their pale uniform blue had been spattered with gold paint. He looked at her directly and he smiled.”
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“Theoretically, the procedure might be more stable if it was applied to a human fetus in vivo. An unborn child in the womb.”
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“ghoti,”
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“binomials”
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“lacunae”
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“Weil said. “Details are scarce, and I’m not a scientist, but it involves a biologically mediated attempt at communicating with the Hypotheticals.”
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“Turk had family in Austin, Texas. But they hadn’t heard from him lately and wouldn’t expect to.”
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“The view was in an unearthly way beautiful, but it was also unendurable. It implied too much”
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“[H]e dreamed things for which he had no words.”
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