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What are you reading? September 9, 2022 [1]
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Date: 2022-09-09
I am reading:
Exit Music by Ian Rankin - Shirer was one of my more intense reads...I may even go in for a reread of Rise and Fall before the end of the year but right now I want to relax and I knew that I had at least one of Rankin’s Inspector John Rebus police procedurals somewhere around the house...granted, the mugging and murder of a Russian dissident poet in Edinburgh, Scotland may not be as relaxing as police procedurals usually are, at least not nowadays.
He couldn’t see himself driving cabs or doing precognitions for defense lawyers. Couldn’t see himself “starting afresh” as others had done— retiring to Marbella or Florida or Bulgaria. Some had sunk their pensions into property, letting flats to students— a chief inspector he knew had made a mint that way, but Rebus didn’t want the hassle. He’d be nagging the students all the time about cigarette burns in the carpet or the washing-up not being done.
Dawn by Octavia Butler - Only read a few pages this week but now I know why the main protagonist is named Lilith.
“You’ll Awaken a small group of humans, all English-speaking, and help them learn to deal with us. You’ll teach them the survival skills we teach you. Your people will all be from what you would call civilized societies. Now they’ll have to learn to live in forests, build their own shelters, and raise their own food all without machines or outside help.”
“You are hierarchical. That’s the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It’s a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all...” The rattling sound again. “That was like ignoring cancer. I think your people did not realize what a dangerous thing they were doing.”
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