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"Well, wh, t'begin with," the Professor owned up, "I must apologize. Research is research, but I tricked you and used you and I put your life in danger. Set a scientist down in front of a vein of knowledge and he's going t'dig. It's this pure focus, exclusive of all view to loss or gain, that's seen science achieve such uninterrupted advances. You've read your Aristotle."
"Almost not at all," I said. "I grant you your pure scientific motives. Please get to the point."
"Forgive me I only wanted t'say that the purity of science often hurts many people, just like pure natural phenomena do. Volcanic eruptions,bury whole towns, floods wash bridges away, earthquakes know buildings flat - " Hard-boiled Wonderland
"Soon as you get settled, go to the library," the Gatekeeper tells me my first day in town."There is a girl who minds the place by herself. Tell her the Town told you to come read old dreams. She will show you the rest."
"Old Dreams?" I say. "What do you mean by 'old dreams'?"
the Gatekeeper pauses from whittling a round peg, sets down his penknife, and sweeps the wood shavings from the table.
"Old dreams are . . . old dreams. Go to the library. You will find enough of them to make your eyes roll. Take out as many as you like and read them good and long." The End of the World
I always find books where none of the characters are named a bit odd, and it has a very distancing effect on me as a reader. It took until about half way through for me to become hooked on the story, when the Calcutec (the protagonist is a human encryptor) started to find out what was going on, and I started to understand the relationship between the events in 'the End of the World' and the real world of the 'Hard-boiled Wonderland'. However, I preferred "Kafka on the Shore " and "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle".
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"Almost not at all," I said. "I grant you your pure scientific motives. Please get to the point."
"Forgive me I only wanted t'say that the purity of science often hurts many people, just like pure natural phenomena do. Volcanic eruptions,bury whole towns, floods wash bridges away, earthquakes know buildings flat - " Hard-boiled Wonderland
"Soon as you get settled, go to the library," the Gatekeeper tells me my first day in town."There is a girl who minds the place by herself. Tell her the Town told you to come read old dreams. She will show you the rest."
"Old Dreams?" I say. "What do you mean by 'old dreams'?"
the Gatekeeper pauses from whittling a round peg, sets down his penknife, and sweeps the wood shavings from the table.
"Old dreams are . . . old dreams. Go to the library. You will find enough of them to make your eyes roll. Take out as many as you like and read them good and long." The End of the World
I always find books where none of the characters are named a bit odd, and it has a very distancing effect on me as a reader. It took until about half way through for me to become hooked on the story, when the Calcutec (the protagonist is a human encryptor) started to find out what was going on, and I started to understand the relationship between the events in 'the End of the World' and the real world of the 'Hard-boiled Wonderland'. However, I preferred "Kafka on the Shore " and "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle".
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