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‘What comet?’ ‘Thomas! Do you never look up? They call it Hale–Bopp. It’s been on the news.’ ‘Hale–Bopp,’ said Thomas. ‘I see. I never watch the news.’ He raised the planisphere towards the editor. ‘I have no interest in astronomy. This comet could crash through the window and land on the carpet and I’d have nothing to say about it.’
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
a discomfort with uncertainty that impels a compulsion to explain or account for every mystery under the sun.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
To be a human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.
Matt Haig • The Midnight Library: A Novel
In fact, it’s Douggie’s growing conviction that the greatest flaw of the species is its overwhelming tendency to mistake agreement for truth.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
The desire for meaning.
Donald Miller • Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
WITH MAN GONE, WILL THERE BE HOPE FOR GORILLA?
Daniel Quinn • Ishmael: A Novel (Ishmael Series Book 1)
For that dim and mostly comfortable picture of a future which hovers before most men’s eyes had vanished.