The Years of Rice and Salt: A Novel
in all religions, of course. It is inevitable. Anything divine must come to us in worldly clothing, and so it comes to us altered.
Kim Stanley Robinson • The Years of Rice and Salt: A Novel
It is always thus at the moment of change, when we rise up out of the everyday and get clear of the blinders of habit, and stand naked to existence, to the moment of choice, vast, dark, windy. The world is huge in these moments, huge. Too big to bear.
Kim Stanley Robinson • The Years of Rice and Salt: A Novel
My feeling is that until the number of whole lives is greater than the number of shattered lives, we remain stuck in some kind of prehistory, unworthy of humanity’s great spirit. History as a story worth telling will only begin when the whole lives outnumber the wasted ones. That means we have many generations to go before history begins. All the i
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