( it don't bother none, 'cept in the most abstract of senses. when you grow up an' your life is subsumed by the dead an' the history of the world, when you can walk down a street an' converse just as easily with a dead veteran of the civil war as with a livin' fella from the great one, you learn how little the years matter an' how short an' precious life is. he's spoken to members of the roman consulates, men an' women who died on the silk trade routes, souls lost to the ocean depths over thousands of years of seafarin'. gene takes to the differences in timeline without so much as a whimper to the ungodly bang of it all. )
Fella told me humans got all the way on up to the moon. That true?
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( it don't bother none, 'cept in the most abstract of senses. when you grow up an' your life is subsumed by the dead an' the history of the world, when you can walk down a street an' converse just as easily with a dead veteran of the civil war as with a livin' fella from the great one, you learn how little the years matter an' how short an' precious life is. he's spoken to members of the roman consulates, men an' women who died on the silk trade routes, souls lost to the ocean depths over thousands of years of seafarin'. gene takes to the differences in timeline without so much as a whimper to the ungodly bang of it all. )
Fella told me humans got all the way on up to the moon. That true?