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Gyro smiled. “There’s an old pataphysical saying: ‘An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered.’ Adventure is never convenient. And eve… - Pat Murphy
" "Gyro smiled. “There’s an old pataphysical saying: ‘An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered.’ Adventure is never convenient. And everything is an adventure, if you take the right perspective.”
“So everything is inconvenient?” Bailey grumbled.
“Oh, yes. That’s exactly it! Life is terribly inconvenient, which makes it quite entertaining.”
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Patrice Ann 'Pat' Murphy (born March 9, 1955) is an award-winning American science writer and author of science fiction and fantasy novels.
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People always talk about human sacrifice as if it were an unusual and aberrant activity," she said thoughtfully. "Over the centuries, it's really been fairly common in a number of societies. Think about it. There're a number of religions in the United States whose worship centers on a particular human sacrifice." She glanced at me.
"Jesus Christ on the cross," I said slowly.
"Certainly. Thousands of people consume Christ's body and blood each Sunday."
"That's different." She shrugged. "Not really. Christ died long ago in a faraway place, and that might make it seem different. His worshipers claimed he was God incarnate, but the Aztecs claimed the same for the god-king they sacrificed. It happened only once, and that speaks for moderation on the part of the Christians, but that's not a fundamental difference, just one of degree.
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