The setup and the #SundaySentence:
"I don't know if he's right, but I recognize the desire, a longing that animates dystopian fiction as well as doomsday cults, the yearning for a force to bring people together. It's not that we crave disaster, it's that we don't know how to join hands."
Sofia Samatar, The White Mosque
Note: the 'he' in the first sentence is Dipesh Chakrabaty.
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"His prophecies would have come true, but only the part about the tribulation, which is always true, always coming true somewhere. Taken together, predictions of the end times add up to a vast cry, less like prophecy than recognition: the world is ending every day."
Sofia Samatar, The White Mosque
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Meant to get this in on time for #SundaySentence:
"The thought that I might be congenitally averse to the perception of wholeness, bent on finding the cracks in any position whatever, begins to seriously worry me..."
I notice this also in myself - often the more confidentally an opinion is expressed, the more intent I am on finding the cracks. It seems almost reflexive sometimes.
"When I first saw it, I imagined its thick walls were made of crystal, that its surface would taste of salt, and that it could contain more than was physically possible, like a word."
--Sofia Samatar, The White Mosque
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