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The Hydrogen Sonata (A Culture Novel Book 9)
“Even without the intrinsic limitations of a conventional biological brain, what one forgets can be as important and as formative as what one remembers.”
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Refreshingly Unconcerned With The Vulgar Exigencies Of Veracity,
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“I’m a fucking razor-arsed starship, you maniac! I’m not male, female or anything else except stupendously smart and right now tuned to smite. I don’t give a fuck about flattering you. The few and frankly not vitally important sentiments I have concerning you I can switch off like flicking a switch.”
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Kindly don’t make the mistake of imagining you’re entering this discussion anywhere else than following its conclusion. The actions I’ve outlined are settled. They will not be subject to further negotiation. We thank you for your assistance and valued advice.”
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“Mission Director,” Tyun said. “We have come to a decision.” The Liseiden sounded curt, severe. Jelwilin felt relief. Tyun would be compensating for a decision to keep talking rather than to get threatening. A conciliatory, regretful or solemn tone would have augured very badly.
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The Real–with its vast volumes of nothing between the planets, stars, systems and galaxies–was basically mostly vacuum; an averaged near-nothing incapable of true complexity due to its inescapable impoverishment of structure and the sheer overwhelming majority of nothingness over substance.
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The multi-coloured skies around Ablate, filled with the vast glowing clouds of stellar debris and the gasses and dusts resulting from its own slow wearing-away, were some of the most calculatedly spectacular in the civilised galaxy, and that was why Ablate was a place of special significance to the people who called themselves the Gzilt. The Gzilt
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had the effect of continually reinforcing his own understanding.
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The sims it was setting up and letting run were all trying to answer the relatively simple question, How much difference will it make if the Gzilt find out the Book of Truth is a fake? And the answer appeared to be: Who the fuck knows?
from The Hydrogen Sonata (A Culture Novel Book 9) by Iain M. Banks