“Fantasy. Lunacy. All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.”
David Mitchell book Cloud Atlas
"An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 326
Cloud Atlas (2004), An Orison of Sonmi~451 (Part 2)
“The counting of weekdays
would inevitably seem to be
a senseless activity;
dropping letters in the mailbox
a whim of foolish youth;
the sign "No Walking On The Grass"
a symptom of lunacy.”
"We're Extremely Fortunate"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The End and the Beginning (1993)
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“It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.”
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1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
“One sign of a good action is that in retrospect it appears inevitable.”
Kim Stanley Robinson book Green Mars
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 6, “Tariqat” (p. 296)
