• Author: Dan Simmons
  • Full Title: The Fall of Hyperion
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Highlights

  • I was thinking about how free of mobs recent centuries had been: to create a mob there must be public meetings, and public meetings in our time consisted of individuals communing via the All Thing or other datasphere channels; it is hard to create mob passion when people are separated by kilometers and light-years, connected only by comm lines and fatline threads. (Location 4552)
  • “Are we so sure that Christ always knew what to do next? He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.” (Location 5460)
  • Slowly, those who had lived in the lie called the Hegemony will climb out of the ruins of their Core-dependent worlds and join us in true exploration … exploration of the universe and of that greater realm which is inside each of us.” (Location 8233)
  • “Sometimes,” said General Morpurgo, taking her hand, “dreams are all that separate us from the machines.” (Location 8446)
  • Abraham was testing God. By denying the sacrifice at the last moment, by stopping the knife, God had earned the right—in Abraham’s eyes and the hearts of his offspring—to become the God of Abraham. (Location 8731)