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" "What, anyway, was he to say? That intelligence could surpass and excel the blind force of evolution, with its emphasis on mutation, struggle and death? That conscious cooperation was more efficient than feral competition?
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."
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An excess of boringness does not make a thing interesting except in the driest academic sense. A place is not boring if you have to look really hard for something which is interesting. If there is absolutely nothing interesting about any particular place, then that is a perfectly interesting and quintessentially un-boring place.