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The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survivalRichard Powers
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Our father knew more than any living person about the secret of time, except how to live in it. His time did not travel; it was a block of persisting nows.Richard Powers
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Silence: the motor drive of nothingness underneath all rhythm - threatened to last forever, a spell of sleep cast over the entire kingdom of listeners.Richard Powers
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He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhereRichard Powers
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Feeling for the first time what it meant to kick open doors that kept closing, no matter how many legends had already passed through.Richard Powers
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We'd drifted too far to rely on the old boyhood telepathy anymore.Richard Powers