• Author: Dan Simmons
  • Full Title: Hyperion
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Highlights

  • “SOMETIMES THERE IS a thin line separating orthodox zeal from apostasy,” said Father Lenar Hoyt. (Location 404)
  • Besides, history viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians. (Location 3110)
  • By the twentieth century, less than two percent of the people in the so-called industrialized democracies read even one book a year. And that was before the smart machines, dataspheres, and user-friendly environments. By the Hegira, ninety-eight percent of the Hegemony’s population had no reason to read anything. (Location 3307)
  • any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principle which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil. (Location 4878)