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starlit-pathways · 6 months ago

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Everyone knows that change is inevitable. From the second law of thermodynamics to Darwinian evolution, from Buddhism’s insistence that nothing is permanent and all suffering persists from our delusions of permanence to the third chapter of the Ecclesiastes (‘To everything there is a season’), change is part of life, of existence, of the common wisdom. But I don’t believe we’re dealing with all that that means. We haven’t even begun to deal with it.

– Lauren Olamina, in Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler

#i don't normally post what i'm reading as i'm reading it #(eyes the dozens of quotes from previous books i have in my drafts)#but this one is a dystopian fiction that starts on today's date #saturday the 20th of july 2024 #so i'm deigning it international parable of the sower day #i'm liking so far how the tone is describing tragedy like the narrator is trying so hard to be detached from all the suffering #but ultimately failing #because she's literally a bleeding heart #at least that's how i'm reading her so far #parable of the sower #octavia butler #octavia e. butler #octavia e butler #quotes #words #change

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