Аннотация
The Rise of Endymion
Dan Simmons
We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.
—Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the MachineThe universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now moulds the figure of a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, next for a man, next for something else; and each of these things subsists for a very short time. But it is no hardship for the vessel to be broken up, just as there was none in its being fastened together.
—Marcus Aurelius, MeditationsBut here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can,Existent behind all laws, that made them and, lo, they are!And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man,That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a star.—Robert Browning, Abt VoglerIf what I have said should not be plain enough, as I fear it may not be, I will but [sic] you in the...
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