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... -she didn't want Dad, in the other room, to hear her, and the noise of each choked wave of tears was like a giant hiccup--what cowards people are to involve themselves, rather, to passively let themselves be involved, by convention, in sterile relationships--what rotten, dreary, miserable lives they lead--

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... And what is it to be young in years and suddenly wakened to the anguish, the urgency of life?

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第一章

#仿生人会梦见电子羊吗？

里克·德卡德，一个挣着微博薪水的市政员工，和妻子伊兰一起在“末世之战”后飘满放射性尘埃的奥克兰生活——他们靠着人工情绪调节器来对抗生活的空虚。

里克起床后和伊兰就情绪调节器吵了一架，而后来到屋顶的人工草坪查看他的电子羊宠物。在这个世界里，人人都需要一只动物作为宠物，但大型动物价格昂贵，里克的绵羊因破伤风死去之后，里克无力支付新宠物的费用，只能以一只假的仿真电子羊代替。他的邻居巴伯拥有一只高大的母马，这匹母马马上还要诞下小马驹。里克计划用通过干掉非法移民的仿生人来赚取酬金。

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It’s interesting to me that a character who contains multiple motivations is a character we can’t look away from – we’re not sure how to read him, which is interesting.

My First Goose #8, George Saunders

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What’s valuable is to develop one’s ability to choose confidently – to know what you like, what you radically prefer; to get into a comfortable relation with our choosing faculty, let’s say - to get better at identifying these micro-preferences and better at honoring them (and then, of course, next pass through, being willing to overturn them and choose again).

My First Goose #7, George Saunders

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A related idea: we each contain many voices and the one currently manifesting in a sentence is not, at all, the only we have access to. We tend to phrase things a certain way the first time - and sometimes it’s just right. But I think it’s good to think that, if we come back at it again, that’s a “first time” too. (It’s, you know, a “second first time.”) Both come from us. (We are vast, we contain multitudes.)

My First Goose #6, George Saunders

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What writing is about

It's about slowing down. It's about sitting in the backyard, or reading a book with no direct intention, or listening to an album I used to love. It's about receiving the world at a different pace, a pace that's in opposition to the pace of capitalism or the pace of our own expectations.

Analicia Soleto, Creative Strategist for brands & Poet

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等待

等待你从门里走出来，就像等待生活。 希思罗接机，是一场赌博，左还是右？