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Jun. 17th, 2006 08:50 pm"...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 world had once been a splendid, orderly place - that men had made a reasonably trouble-free move from the Garden of Eden to the Athens of Plato and Aristotle, stopping over in the Holy Land to encrypt the secrets of the Universe in the pages of the Bible, and that everything had been slowly, relentlessly falling apart ever since."
- Neal Stephenson, "Quicksilver"
- Neal Stephenson, "Quicksilver"
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Date: 2006-06-18 02:15 am (UTC)