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“Soon our culture's oldest dreams will be made real. Even the thought of sending a kind of flying craft to the moon is no longer nothing more than a child's fantasy. At this moment in the cities below us, the first mechanical men are being constructed that will have the capability to pilot the ship on its maiden voyage. But no one has asked if this dream we've had for so long will lose its value once it's realized. What will happen when those mechanical men step out of their ship and onto the surface of this moon, which has served humanity for thousands of years as our principal icon of love and madness? When they touch their hands to the ground and perform their relentless analyses and find no measurable miracles, but a dead gray world of rocks and dust? When they discover that it was the strength of millions of boyhood daydreams that kept the moon aloft, and that without them that murdered world will fall, spiraling slowly down and crashing into the open sea?”
Dexter Palmer
“We want all possible things made actual, the perpetual possibility of perfection, the best of all futures all at once.”
Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion“Perhaps my gift to you will be as simple as a single word, whispered into your ear by one of your servants as you lie on your deathbed, a word that solves a final mystery and makes it easy for you to slip quietly into the dark.”
Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion“Best, perhaps to keep one's nickels forever in one's pockets, to savor delicious possibility over mundane experience.”
Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion“As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs for you.”
Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion“It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both.”
Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion“For instance, the cards that I wrote for the company's 'I'd Like to Declare My Confused and Ambiguous Fondness for You' line were all notorious failures, some of which were blamed as the single direct cause of several nasty divorces, and some of their purchasers had actually taken the effort to discover the identity of their anonymous author, sending me hate mail, dead fish, and poorly wrapped, oil-stained packages emitting ticking noises.”
Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion“For with each bite he tasted not just the irresistible sweetness of the dessert, but the deliciously agonizing negative flavor of all the imagined foodstuffs that he could have bought with that nickel instead—a turkey leg the size of his forearm, or a milkshake with a pair of deep red strawberries floating on its surface. The single relinquished nickel sat in the custard seller's till, its gold transmuted back to lead.”
Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion“I ask you to kill my father for the crime of bringing me into existence.”
Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion“I truly do not know, and that unnameable feeling that comes with not knowing: it must be worse than grief. It must.”
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