"Reamde"

[fiefoe]

A change of perspectives and location:

• Now he was far from bored but feeling many of the same stresses that had caused him to retire from active duty in the first place. Was it possible to find a station in life with just the right level of interest? Was it possible to be normal without being someone’s dupe?
• Waging war on his enemies had been Sokolov’s habit and his profession for a long time, but being chivalrous to everyone else was simply a basic tenet of having your shit together as a human and as a man.
• But the docks were linked to the terminals by hinged gangways, confirming that this water was salt and that it rose and fell with the tides.
• You know how much it is worth? Fourteen dollars. They print nothing larger because if they did, it would be counterfeited instantly.
• He devoted pint numbers 4 and 5 to disgorging an entire cosmogonical schema that he had either just made up or been carrying around in his hip pocket in case someone asked for one.
• “There is nearly always a chthonic link. The object-imbued-with-numinous-power tends to be of mineral origin:
• He only cared about you to the extent that you were interesting to him now. In that way he kept you on your toes. No aspect of the relationship could be counterfeited when it was being minted anew from moment to moment.
• Teleological Tectonics, meaning that he started with Richard’s maps and then ran the tectonics and the magma flow simulations backward in time so that everything could be knit together into a lava narrative that made sense by Pluto’s lights.
• The unifying principle behind all recombinant cuisine seemed to be indifference, if not outright hostility, to the use of anything that a coastal foodie would define as an ingredient.
• ... the same deep, mysterious cultural mojo as their spurning of onions and salt in favor of onion salt?
• "Now, because of the Wor, Good vs. Evil has been replaced by—what? Primaries vs. Pastels?” Devin shrugged again. “It works for the Crips and the Bloods.”
• The key thing you had to know was that the pipe nuts that held drain traps in place, though they looked huge and immovable, were generally applied finger-tight, since all that was necessary was to compress an internal O-ring around the pipe,
• a man who shuttled among the roles of Herald, Brewer, and Third Drunk.

albedo,  empennage,  Manu Ginobili 

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