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{ 2007 11 28 }

Best sentence I read this morning

“A few intellectually rigorous killjoys argued that any explanation to which humans could relate was probably anthropomorhpic nonsense, but nobody invited them onto talk shows.”

From Greg Egan’s Quarantine, which I am currently reading.

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