“The vendors seemed comical, so intent were they on their slivers of meaningless profit, all unaware of the desolate ages that lay in their own near future, their own imminent deaths.”

— Arthur C. Clarke , book The Light of Other Days

Source: The Light of Other Days (2000), Chapter 26

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