The Bridge

The Bridge
“you know,” he said, “if i had my way i wouldn’t let anybody who believed in star signs or the bible or faith healing or anything like that use electric power, or ride in cars and buses and trains and aircraft, or use anything made of plastic. they want to believe the universe works according to their crazy little rules? ok, let them live that way, but why should they be allowed to use the fruits of sheer fucking human genius and hard work…”

And then:

  1. The Bridge i reach out to the old lamp and turn the darkness on again....
  2. The Pale King They'll either be grateful, or they'll be frightened and avoid you from then on. Both reactions have their uses, as...
  3. The Comfort of Things Looking around at the ornaments, it is only too easy for people from another background and a different system of...
  4. JPod The next day the big drama was that John cast a spell on Evil Mark after Evil Mark ate a...
  5. The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz Jachin-Boaz traded in maps. He bought and sold maps, and some, of certain kinds for special uses, he made or...
  6. Hunger Flies and gnats stuck to the paper and disturbed me; I blew on them to make them go away, then...

20. December 2006 by The Geecologist
Quoted from Iain Banks originally written in 1986
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