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Holy Fire Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling
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“Someone that I used to be truly loved someone you used to be once. Try not to forget me.”
Bruce Sterling, Holy Fire
“that I used to be truly loved someone you used to be once. Try not to forget me.”
Bruce Sterling, Holy Fire
“I won the school essay contest!” Laszlo piped up in English. “I get to stay with the president today!” Maya swallowed hard. “That’s great, kid. You must be really proud.” “I am the future,” Laszlo confided shyly. “I’m a big ragamuffin,” Maya said.”
Bruce Sterling, Holy Fire
“I wonder if any of these strange places are still inhabited. Maybe they are all dead, and still running on automatic. They are haunted castles in virtual sand.”
Bruce Sterling, Holy Fire
“I put the mud on the wheel, I spun it, and I could work clay. It was a miracle. I could do clay without any thought, without any doubt. I knew nothing about clay and yet the skill came out of my hands. Clay was all I had—all that I was. Clay was all that was left of me. I was an animal that made pots.”
Bruce Sterling, Holy Fire
“It is an objet gratuit. A work of artifice that demonstrates the bankruptcy of the quotidian.”
Bruce Sterling, Holy Fire
“The thrill of the uncanny lies in the piquancy of oxymoron.”
Bruce Sterling, Holy Fire
“It’s all right to be a happy amateur. And it’s all right to be truly gifted. But to be competent and middling bad at an artifice that you care about—that’s a nightmare.”
Bruce Sterling, Holy Fire
“To accept desire, to surrender yourself to desire … to explore desire, to seek out gratification. It was the polar opposite of wisdom and discretion.”
Bruce Sterling, Holy Fire