"'We can't stop.'" (p. 79)
"'...we must continue accelerating or die.'
"'Accelerating forever...'" (p. 81)
"'I imagine we can get fifty years out of our gadgets.'" (ibid.)
"'We might see billions of years go by. That could be quite wonderful.'" (p. 83)
Reymont tautens and exclaims:
"'Hoy!...I've gotten an idea...We have a bit of figuring to do...fast!'" (ibid.)
Thus, an irresistible force meets an immovable object or at least time dilation meets an Andersonian moment of realization. To find out what that realization is, stay tuned for CHAPTER 10...
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"... and as the full impact of the disaster took hold, Reymont had the type of random thought which comes unbidden and unwanted at such times: He remembered a brief video segment (a fragment from before the Third World War) of a 20th Century animation in which the main character cried out: 'Jane, stop this crazy thing!'"
-Keith kh
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