Orbita

life itself (which is a set of illusions and tricks and artifices within a consciousness that is trying to understand life through perceptions and dreams and art)

Not to wish the time away but to try to tether it to something countable. Otherwise – otherwise the centre drifts. Space shreds time to pieces.

You have to not stop. You have to keep moving. You have this glorious orbit and when you are orbiting you are impact - proof and nothing can touch you. When the planet is galloping through space and you gallop after it through light and dark with your time - drunk brain, nothing can end. There could be no end, there can only be circles.

He's never sure if man's lust fr space is curiosity or ingraditude.

Nell wants sometimes to ask Shaun how it is he can be an astronaut and believe in God, a Creationist God that is, but she know what his answer would be. He'd ask how it is she can be an astronaut and not believe in God.

Iy's easier to have nothing much to lose than to keep losing something.

Tha planet is shaped by the sheer amazing force of human want, which has changed everything, the forests, the poles, the reservoirs, the glaciers, the rivers, the seas, the mountains, the coastlines, the skies, a planet contoured and landscaped by want.

There's no life without it. Without that planet, there's no life. Obviously.