By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains malleable, and retains th… - Iain Banks
" "By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains malleable, and retains the possibility of change, the hope of coming to prevail; victory, to use an unfashionable word. In this, the future is a game; time is one of the rules.
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About Iain Banks
Iain Menzies Banks (February 16, 1954 – June 9, 2013), officially Iain Banks, was a Scottish writer. As Iain M. Banks he wrote science fiction; as Iain Banks he wrote literary fiction.
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Tell me, suit, don't you wonder if it's all worth it?'
"If what's all worth what?" it says, and I can hear that condescending tone in its voice again.
"You know; living. Is it worth all the... bother?"
"No."
"No?"
"No, I don't ever wonder about it."
"Why not?" I'm keeping my questions short as we walk, conserving energy and breath.
"I don't need to wonder about that. It's not important."
"Not important?"
"It's an irrelevant question. We live; that's enough."
Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and wilfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought.
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