Words&Dirt

“After a civilization has destroyed or tamed its original wilderness, the civilization then goes about memorializing all that was lost.”

––American Stories: Living American History, Vol. II: From 1865, by Jason Ripper, pg. 24

“‘I know what people tell themselves. You made Siri the man for the job before he was even born, and when the Fireflies dropped in you had to put him at the top of the list and ship him out and now all you’ve got is those goddamned signals, that’s you last link, and I understand, man. It’s natural, it’s Human, it’s, it’s inevitable because you and I, we haven’t gotten around to cutting those parts out of us yet. But just about everyone else around here has, and we can’t afford to ignore that.'”

––Echopraxia, by Peter Watts, pg. 195-6