“Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.”
“Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying”
“A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.”
“-like maintaining the grounds of a castle when the knight, fallen in battle, will never be returning”
“Fairness is a myth among a fallen humankind, but equality of struggle can be maintained, even if it is only a pale ghost of true”
“She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness… but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable.”