“She may be mad, he realizes abruptly. Not clinically insane, just at odds with the entire universe. Locked into a pathological view of her own role in reality.”

—  Charles Stross, book Accelerando

Source: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 7 (“Curator”), p. 289

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