“"What, now?" "Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy."”

— Iain Banks , Culture series

Look to Windward page 213.
Culture series, Look to Windward (2000)

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Scottish writer 1954–2013

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