“It was a glaring omission, a sign of cosmic sloppiness. Not even that, Vasko corrected himself. It was a sign of cosmic obliviousness. The universe didn’t know what was happening here. It didn’t know and it didn’t care. It didn’t even know that it didn’t know.”

— Alastair Reynolds , book Absolution Gap

Source: Absolution Gap (2003), Chapter 39 (p. 627)

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