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I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.
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I want them not to forget. Which is, I suppose, what all aged veterans want. But they'll forget. Of course they will. And their children will know less of us than they do, and their children's children will find us barely imaginable.
Which is as it should be. You can't stop time.
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The afternoon is too tempting to be denied. It isn't Paradise here, or even close, but the mimosa is in bloom and the air from the sea is cool and pleasant. On days like this I think of poor old Magnus Stepney's evolving Green God, harking us all up to Eden. The Green God's voice is faint enough that few of us hear it clearly, and that's our tragedy, I suppose, as a species—but I hear it very distinctly just now. It asks me to step into the sunshine, and I mean to do its bidding.
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But you're a Philosopher! Julian exclaimed at one point. This is Philosophy, not Religion, since you rule out supernatural beings—you know that as well as I do!
I suppose it is Philosophy, looked at from one angle, Stepney conceded. But there's no money in Philosophy, Julian. Religion is far more lucrative as a career.
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I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.
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I suppose he could have said this more gently, but what would be the point?
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
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December 15, 1953
(age 71)
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