But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced themselves that the opposite was true - that the world had once been a splendid, orderly place...and that everything had been slowly, relentlessly falling apart ever since.


The Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World (ed. Harper Collins, 2014) - ISBN: 9780062378583

Neal Stephenson Quotes

But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced...

But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced...

But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced...

But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced...