Gregory Benford Quote

You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with — no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.


Chapter 31 (p. 360) - Timescape (1980)


You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness...

You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness...

You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness...

You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness...