Kane X. Faucher

“No, you have been brought up with the lies that books have told you, and granted they are far more comforting and aesthetically pleasing than the truth. I will not rip the illusion from you. Keep it, hold it, love it, let it give solace on dark days. Let the truth die a noble death, with no marker, no troubadours singing its songs, no glorious parades or the trotting out of its many lustrous icons on saint days. Let the truth die with the man who holds it. If there was anything I learned while teaching, it is that truth is overrated. The lies are just as, if not more, beautiful and poetic. And after centuries, if the lies have survived, they become the truth, as such.”

“That din of applause was currently manifest in a mediated form online. “Inside those cubes of the virtual,” thought Albrecht, “is a vaulting collection of hungry ids. All they require is discipline.”

“The best atrocity engineering is conducted, thought Albrecht, never so much by the participant, but by the enabler.”

“Political and economic considerations exert pressure on science to answer strictly practical, immediate problems––in some cases by directed funding, in other coercive ways by muzzling scientific findings found to be in contradiction with political and economic agenda.”

“He felt the reassuring thump of having driven over a small animal, the jolt of it firming up the offer of a sick, annealing grin.”

“First they burn the books, and then the bodies follow”

“Books have a curious effect on those with certain predispositions to fall into obsession.”