We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us
the run-down nature of the high-rise was a model of the world into which the future was carrying them, a landscape beyond technology where everything was either derelict or more ambiguously recombined in unexpected but more meaningful ways
In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g.
I'm a strong opponent of all religious belief.(Conversations pg 96)
Have you noticed how vocabularies fluctuate in order to cope with our need to justify ourselves?
I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
As Miriam released my hand I felt that she and Midwife Bell had returned to a more primitive world, where men never intruded and even their role in conception was unknown. Here the chain of life was mother to daughter, daughter to mother. Fathers and sons belonged in the shadows with the dogs and livestock, like the retriever growling at Midwife Bell's unfamiliar car from the window of my neighbours' living room.
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