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She smiles. She says his name.
Ender Wiggin, my precious.
When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn’t yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.
Reklam
‘I haven’t said I’m going to involve Han Fei-tzu and Si Wang-mu in your silly save-Jane project.’
‘But you will,’ said Ender.
‘Why will I?’
‘Because Miro and I both love you and need you and you have no right to die on us without at least trying to live.’
‘To find out where she is, we have to find out how and where she began,’ said Ender. ‘If she really is a philote, she got connected up somehow, somewhere.’
‘A detective following up a three-thousand-year-old trail,’ said Jane. ‘Won’t this be fun, watching you do all this in the next few months.’
'...We have exactly as much evidence of your being a free intelligence as we have of ourselves being free intelligences. If it turns out that you’re not, we have to question whether we are, either.'
‘Nothing always existed,’ said Miro.
‘Says who? The supposed beginning of this universe, that was only the start of the present order – this display, all of what we think exists. But who says the philotes that are acting out the natural laws that began at that moment didn’t exist before? And if the whole universe collapses back in on itself, who says that the philotes won’t simply be released from the laws they’re following now, and go back into …’
‘Into what?’
‘Into chaos. Darkness. Disorder. Whatever they were before this universe brought them together. Why couldn’t they – we – have always existed and always continue to exist?’
Reklam