Perception Quotes

"A man and a woman are in a hotel room, making love. Out their window there is a neon sign that changes colors, from red to green to red to green. Over and over. And that light comes in their window and falls on them. And when the red light is shining on them, all is rosy. Full of life. Mysterious and beautiful. And then the light change, and the green light shine on them, and all becomes ghastly and pale. Mechanical. Like a nightmare of insects. And the lights keep changing, back and forth, back and forth. Red to green to red. Lovers don't know what to think."

- Character Ta Shu, in Kim Stanley Robinson's Antarctica, explaining a story by Al-dous Huxley.

"Beauty is fractal to infinity in both directions." - Character Ta Shu, in Kim Stanley Robinson's Antarctica