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I return to problems I can’t solve, not because I’m an idiot, but because real problems can’t be solved
Science is a story. History is a story. These are the stories we tell ourselves to make ourselves come true
He was not used to feeling. He saved himself in his lonely hours by thinking
- I am a religious man
- Most mean men call themselves so – it excuses their own behaviour
We know our sun will die, in another hundred milion years or so, then the lights will go out and there will be no light to read by any more.
Make a list. Look around you. Rock, sand, soil, fruit, trees, roses, spiders, snails, frogs, fish, cattle, horses, rainfall, sunshine, you and me. This is the grand experiment called life. What could be more unexpected?
As a character in my own fiction, I had a chance to escape the facts. There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own
Like most women, Hera was careful not to tell her husband everything
was immortal, he had only the punishment of forever. Forever to be the same person.
A powerful man doesn’t notice much. He doesn’t need to. Other people notice things for him
Men are unfaithful by nature. This is not a fault in men, for nature should not be accused of faulty workmanship. It is as useless to rail against man’s infidelity as it is to complain that water is wet.
Independent women are like that. I don’t know which is worse – the dependent ones who bleat at you all day, or the bitches who couldn’t care less
I hear them plan for tomorrow and die during the night. I hear a woman groaning in labour and her child is stillborn. I hear the terror of the captured man, and suddenly he is free
She said something about Amazons never marrying. Something silly like that, and he realised she was just a woman like the rest, who would never know what was good for her
Anyone who plucks these apples will be like the gods, knowing past and future as though they were today.
- That would be a blessing for mankind.
- That would be a curse’ said Hera. Humankind continues in ignorance because knowledge destroys them.
Now he was carrying something he wanted to keep, and that changed everything
Every man assumes that what is valuable to himself must be coveted by others
The walls strength is not in the stones but in the spaces between the stones