too like the lightning - Ada Palmer

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Too Like the Lightning (Ada Palmer)
- Subrayado en la página 31 | Pos. 468-72  | Añadido el viernes 22 de febrero de 2019 18H46' GMT

It’s not the numbers, not these rare psyches you’re charting that stimulate great progress. It’s groups. I’ve studied the same inventors, authors, leaders that you have, and the thing that most reliably produces many at once—the effect you’ve worked so hard to replicate—is when people abandon the nuclear family to live in a collective household, four to twenty friends, rearing children and ideas together in a haven of mutual discourse and play. We don’t need to revolutionize the kindergartens, we need to revolutionize the family.”
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Too Like the Lightning (Ada Palmer)
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There is some truth to their claims, since it does not take a firebrand leader to make someone who lives in Maui, works in Myanmar, and lunches in Syracuse realize the absurdity of owing allegiance to the patch of dirt where babe first parted from placenta.
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Too Like the Lightning (Ada Palmer)
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I hereby call on all Spanish citizens—no, on all people who consider Spanish identity an important part of who they are, to show their support for that ideal by renouncing their citizenship, becoming floating citizens of the EU for twenty-four hours, and then reapplying to become Spanish citizens again, this time by choice. What we choose means more than what is handed to us by chance.
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Too Like the Lightning (Ada Palmer)
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“are you a cook? Or is this just a job?” Such a refreshing question. In our cast of leaders and vocateurs one would almost think we had regressed to the olden days when people were their jobs. Mr. Smith is a banker, Mrs. Christian is a nurse, as if those twenty or forty or sixty hours made the other hundred of each week nothing. How do you introduce yourself at parties, reader? Are you a cook? A hiker? A reader? A moviegoer?
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Too Like the Lightning (Ada Palmer)
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short for Micromegas, “Littlebig,” the alien visitor from Jupiter who towers over humankind in grandeur and philosophy in Patriarch Voltaire’s famous (and possibly Earth’s oldest) science-fiction tale.
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Too Like the Lightning (Ada Palmer)
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Thisbe: “No incongruity in a nun being around so much … erotic activity?” Heloïse: “On the contrary, what could be more appropriate? Celibacy is the most extreme of sexual perversions, after all.” That one floored even Thisbe. “What?” Heloïse: “Sexual desire is the purest and most natural of animal drives. To suppress it in favor of an intellectual and theological satisfaction is a perversion of nature in the most extreme sense. Why, even to fornicate alone, or with many people at once, or with a machine, or an ass or hound, is closer to Nature’s intent than abstinence. Do you not agree?”