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Oh, that's childish, says Nicholas in disgust.
Well, so what? says Alec. We happen to be children.
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The same intact culture that made them good businessmen also made many of them lousy parents.
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Rutherford was a historian, after all, and secretly enjoyed it when the truth did injury to modern sensibilities.
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Ah, Los Angeles. One disaster after another, always has been.
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It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable.
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A missionary may persuade a painted savage to worship a cross rather than an idol; but he will not make laws that send that savage's children to school, where they might learn to make the desert they inhabit another Eden by means of the advanced sciences. He may persuade his flock to love one another for his God's sake, but he'll invariably urge them to slaughter any neighboring tribe that still worships stone idols. This is the failure of religion as a force for the common welfare.
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So, um... are you alone out here?
I was, she said.
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I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.
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The truth is, Homo sapiens sapiens is pretty much the same the world over, regardless of skin color or technological development. Racists and provincial types have problems with this fact, but it is a fact. All mortals have the same potential, and only chance determines who's playing a spinet or who's clubbing dinner to death with a big rock. And, you know what? Mortals adapt to the environment in which they're placed. Switch babies between savages and technologicals, and nobody notices! I know, because I've seen it done. I've seen the son of a club-carrying cave dweller fuming because his accounting software wasn't quite adequate for his needs. All humans have the same brain package.
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He saw in memory Mendoza's face, her black eyes sad as she downloaded a chapter on revolutions.
Here you go. Great heroes and the things they wrecked. Always easier to destroy something than to create something. It's harder to plant a garden than to blow up a building, and undoubtedly more boring, but you just might need to do it one day, eh?
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Times had changed.
Sooner or later, they always did.
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Why did I never understand...
That it was vanity? I said.
Mm, but so much worse... Delusion. Because, the thing is—human progress begins, not with one lone man with a weapon, however heroic. Nor with subtle governments, be they never so altruistic. It begins with a man and his wife in bed... and... how could I ever hope to govern humanity, without having been even that human?
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I've been in the entertainment industry ever since, in one capacity or another. It's better than the Inquisition. Usually.
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Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I've observed.
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It takes thousands of them to create an archive of human wisdom; only one to set a torch to it. Wouldn't you have to say, then, that the work of the librarians is more typical of mortal behavior than the work of the arsonist?
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Why should we obey you? Budu asked.
Because I'm, er, omnipotent, said Alec.
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You've no appreciation of high romance, that's your trouble, Lewis said, climbing in and starting the motor.
Joseph nodded somberly. Boy meets girl, girl loses boy, everybody dies. I just don't get it.
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His nation of liberty was founded on the backs of Negro slaves and at the cost of exterminating the aborigines. As far as I can tell, the Yankee's idea of freedom is his right to carry a pistol with which he may shoot strangers in the street.
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He caught his breath, absorbing the impact of the scientific discoveries, the advances in scholarship, the inevitable dwindling into insignificance of issues that had mattered more than his life. He closed his eyes, turned his face away, but he couldn't stop his understanding.
You see? said Edward. They're all happy pagans nowadays. When they take the trouble to worship at all. Enlightenment swept most of that nonsense away, and good riddance!
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That is one dark house your God lives in, man. Alec shook his head. You can keep your Age of Faith. Whyn't you find somebody to worship who isn't a shracking psychopath?
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Did you know what would happen next? Did you know and sit there like God, silent, remorseless, useless?
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Is God a cruel bastard or what, to make love so painful?
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Born:
June 10, 1952
Died:
January 31, 2010
(aged 57)
Bio:
Kage Baker was an American science fiction and fantasy writer.
Known for:
In the Garden of Iden (1997)
Sky Coyote (1999)
Mendoza in Hollywood (2000)
The Graveyard Game (2001)
The Life of the World to Come (2004)
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