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"Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience."
Cloud Atlas (novel)We–by whom I mean anyone over sixty—commit two offenses just by existi — Cloud Atlas (novel)
"We–by whom I mean anyone over sixty—commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drugs barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide. Our second offense is being Everymans memento mori. The world can only get comfy in shiny-eyed denial if we are out of sight."
Cloud Atlas (novel)
Cloud Atlas (novel)
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Cloud Atlas, published in 2004, is the third novel by British author David Mitchell. The book combines metafiction, historical fiction, contemporary fiction and science fiction, with interconnected nested stories in different writing styles that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the 19th century to the island of Hawaii in a distant post-apocalyptic future. Its title references a pie
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