Anyone who is subjected to punishment—whoever they may be or wherever they may be—faces it for this reason alone: they do not have the money to evade it.
Anyone who is subjected to punishment—whoever they may be or wherever they may be—faces it for this reason alone: they do not have the money to evade it.
― Atrona Grizel
Those who draw inspiration while in physical motion—who think more “clearly” while walking rather than lying down—are, more often than not, captives of bodily sensations.
― Atrona Grizel
The Earth is unbearably boring: there is no other civilization with which humanity communicates beyond the sky, nor does it possess countless satellites, nor does it sit beside fantastical cosmic structures, nor does it orbit a unique star. At every second I live, I feel as though I have been born into the dullest of all possibilities by falling onto this planet, because when I look up at the sky, there is only the Moon and the Sun. Nothing else. No other civilizations. No extraordinary cosmic nebulae I have ever seen or could even imagine. Even the Solar System planets themselves—aren't they all ordinary, except Jupiter? Thoughts come to me: just as two countries trade with each other on this world, I envision two civilizations on distant planets, at the farthest corners of the universe, trading and dedicating themselves together to exploring space. Perhaps they even discover other civilizations, their numbers growing to three, four, even more, and just as the tiny nations on Earth devour one another, they too begin to consume each other—but on a cosmic scale. Here, on the other hand, everything exists on a planetary scale. If a list of planets had been laid before me before my birth, I don’t think I would have chosen Earth. And yet, of course, an alien who has never seen any of this would likely find this place quite fascinating. But once accustomed, I believe they would prefer to leave it.
― Atrona Grizel
“You are on Earth; there is no remedy for that,” says Beckett. Yet what renders being in the planet “unsolvable” is the civilization that occupies it, not the planet itself. That is, it is not being on Earth, but being in the world that forms the blind knot.
― Atrona Grizel