“He often spoke aloud to himself now, or hummed, without ever noticing it, as if ignoring an old companion who always said the same things.”

—  Kim Stanley Robinson , book The Years of Rice and Salt

Book 1: "Awake to Emptiness", Ch. 2
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

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