In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.

I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?

This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)

He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.

Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.

Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said.

It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.