It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen. - Robert Charles Wilson

What is inevitable is not death but change. Change is the only abiding reality. The metaverse evolves, fractally and forever. Saints become sinners, sinners become saints. Dust becomes men, men become gods, gods become dust.

One doesn’t have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.

Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity.