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Anna Starobinets

The Living

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  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted4 months ago
    I mustn’t laugh while the Monster is alive…
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted4 months ago
    There, it is decided. The Living has risen again, and His number equals one billion. The rest will be reduced while we are establishing stability. Those that aren’t reduced we will finish off. For their own good. For the good of the Living
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted4 months ago
    She rarely looks the Son in the eye. She rarely looks at him at all – normally she looks slightly to one side of him. When I ask her, she always denies it, but I think it’s because she has never been able to learn to love him. The Son frightens her
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted4 months ago
    A humble, primordial, ancient desire suddenly arose – the desire to pray to someone about something. Not the Living, but someone else – someone who could protect them both, someone who had ruled this world long ago, before the Nativity
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted4 months ago
    ….A humble, primordial, ancient desire suddenly arose – the desire to pray to someone about something. Not the Living, but someone else – someone who could protect them both, someone who had ruled this world long ago, before the Nativity
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted4 months ago
    That’s not how it is at the Wise One’s place. Here things are interesting. Here it’s all like it was in ancient times – hard wooden furniture and a hard parquet floor. He has little multi-coloured poufs to sit on. He has pictures on the walls – real ones, with congealed encrustations of oil paint which he’d commissioned: three landscapes (a wood, the sea and some mountains, the beauty of first layer), depictions of wild animals… He has a pianola – you can make sounds on it in first layer. He has a library – seven real paper books, which smell of decay and mould…
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted4 months ago
    And that very often these operations lead not only to temporary cessation of existence for the foetus, but also to the temporary cessation or incapacitation of the would-be mother as a result of blood loss…
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted4 months ago
    Zero stroked the reflective body of the Crystal W. The latest model. An even more sophisticated design. Even more three-dimensional picture. Even thinner screen. Even more user-friendly interface. Even more sound and colour settings. The Crystal Wise One. Exclusive equipment especially for him
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted4 months ago
    If you are younger than eight years old, you can’t watch Rosa and Mark’s pauses. If you are over eight, enter your name and incode to watch Rosa and Mark’s pauses… See you after the break. This is the Wise One and you’re watching Who Still Does Not Agree.’
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted4 months ago
    PLANETMAN (strictly): You are damaging the health of the Living with your stubbornness! You are a part of the Living and you are poisoning His body with your old age. The Living wants all of His parts to be renewed at the right time. Otherwise the Living will start to get old too.
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