Samuel R. Delany - The Einstein Intersection (1967)

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As morning branded the sea, darkness fell away at the far side of the beach. I turned to follow it.

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What are you doing here? I asked at last.
Probably the same thing you are.
What's that?
She looked serious. Why don't you tell me?
I went back to my knife. Sharpening my machete.
I'm sharpening my mind, she said. There is something to be done that will require an edge on both.

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The beginning of the end, the beginning of the end, muttered Lo Hawk. We must preserve something.
The end of the beginning, sighed La Dire. Everything must change.

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Difference is the foundation of those buildings, the pilings beneath the docks, tangled in the roots of the trees. Half the place was built on it. The other half couldn't live without it. But to talk about it in public reveals you to be ill-mannered and vulgar.

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If you're going to do something stupid—and we all do—it might as well be a brave and foolish thing.

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You're not looking for me, you know. I'm looking for you.

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I must remember my own origins. Once I was as ignorant as you; I swear, though, I can't remember when.

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You're living in the real world now, Spider said sadly. It's come from something. It's going to something. Myths always lie in the most difficult places to ignore.

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It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfections on to another person. One day the phantasmagoria vanishes, and with it love dies.

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All life is a rhythm, she said as I sat up. All death is rhythm suspended, a syncopation before life resumes.

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In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.

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Whoever heard of La-ing or Lo-ing somebody you're herding goats with, or laughing with, or making love with.

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Earth, the world, the fifth planet from the sun—the species that stands on two legs and roams this thin wet crust: it's changing, Lobey. It's not the same. Some people walk under the sun and accept that change, others close their eyes, clap their hands to their ears, and deny the world with their tongues.

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Breathing is a fascinating thing to watch in a woman.

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