““The acceptance of indeterminacy is the beginning of wisdom,” the hermit quoted.”
Robert Sheckley book Mindswap
Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 14 (p. 70)
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In the future, interstellar travel to alien worlds will be too expensive for most ordinary people. It certainly is for Marvin, a college student who wants to take a really good vacation. And so he signs up for what he can afford, a mindswap, in which your consciousness is swapped into the body of an alien lifeform. But Marvin is unlucky, and finds himself in the body of an interstellar criminal, a body that he has to vacate fast. But that criminal consciousness has stolen Marvin's earthly body, and Marvin has to find a body on the black market. Travel from world to world with Marvin, each one crazier than the last, as he keeps finding far from ideal bodies in awful situations, just to stay alive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
“All men are mortal, he tells us, but some are more mortal than others.”
Robert Sheckley book Mindswap
Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 32 (p. 153)
“Last week we revoked his Godhead; we caught him operating a life without a license.”
Robert Sheckley book Mindswap
Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 32 (p. 153)
“Nature abhors a vacuum, and I don’t like it much either.”
Robert Sheckley book Mindswap
Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 32 (p. 153)
“In a way it made no difference, since nothing is permanent except our illusions.”
Robert Sheckley book Mindswap
Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 33 (pp. 156-157)
“Time devours our feeble mortality, leaving us with but the sour residue of memory.”
Robert Sheckley book Mindswap
Marvin nodded. “Yet this ineffable and ungraspable quantity,” he replied, “this time which no man may possess, is in truth our only possession.”
Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 24 (p. 110)
