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through pure logic and rationality.
Moreover, the tyrants of logic question the value of the so-called irrational.
Of what use is great art?
Beautiful music? Inspiring architecture?
In point of fact, any decision indeed, any organization or culture which does
not incorporate emotion,
passion, and other so-called irrational factors will in the long run fail,
because the absolute reliance upon
quantified facts and pure logic reduces the intelligence of the decisions of
that culture. The evidence of
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history demonstrates that few strong societies have existed
transgenerationally without an internal culture
embodying irrational elements such as love, beauty, art, and music.
Yet, from the centuries preceding the first Collapse through the present,
supposedly intelligent men and
women have striven to ensure that the decisions that they make are grounded in
absolutely quantified
facts and pure rational logic&
Exton Land From "The Importance of Irrationality" Etymology Quarterly
June, a. d. 2364
Chapter 49 Kemal
Marissa and I woke around nine. We decided to eat breakfast on the enclosed
sun porch. The morning
sun there warmed the room. The miniature lemon trees along the east wall gave
the room a moist and
fragrant feel.
Marissa set down her coffee. "You didn't sleep that well. Are you sure you're
all right?"
"There are some loose ends&
"I heard about Entile Brazelton's arrest. It's on all the news nets. Some of
them are saying that it's tied to
your takeover of MMSystems.
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"I'm sure it is. They don't want me to have the company. I laughed. "That's
clear enough. They'd charge
me with anything from child abuse to murder if they thought it would keep me
from taking over. That's
why O'Bannon called last night. I told him to get ready for the worst.
"I thought it might be something like that. Her hand reached across the table
and squeezed mine. "It's
going to be bad, isn't it?"
"Yes. I didn't want to bother you with it. I just wanted to enjoy the
weekend. I had wanted that, and I'd
enjoyed the evening with Marissa. We hadn't had too many evenings like that in
the past months. There
would be few ahead either, I feared.
Marissa turned. Fred had knocked on the door frame.
"Mr. Kemal? There's a Mr. Massin for you. He said it was important.
Marissa raised her eyebrows.
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"I'll try to make this quick. I'd said that the night before, but nothing was
likely to be quick in the days
and weeks ahead.
I nodded to Fred. "Show him to the study. Ashtay probably had bad news as
well, especially if he'd
traveled from Denv to find me. I took a last sip of coffee, then rose from the
small table.
I smiled at Marissa. "Don't leave. I'll be back.
"I'll be here, dear.
I'd been so lucky with her. She was beauty itself, and I'd never forgotten
that, not over all the years. With
a smile, I walked to the study.
Ashtay was standing beside the bookcase that held the leather-bound
pre-Collapse books that few knew
my father had collected over his lifetime.
"Good morning, Mr. Kemal.
I closed the door, and then eased behind the desk, where the screens there
would protect me from
anything short of ultra-ex. "Good morning, Ashtay. I imagine it must be
important for you to come all this
way on a weekend. What is it?"
Ashtay turned. "You should know. I'm not Ashtay. I talk like him. I look like
him. I'll register as him.
I studied the man who said he wasn't Ashtay. He registered as human, but he
could have been a clone.
The scanners didn't show any weapons. "What do you want?"
"To tell you that the game is over. The risk has become too high for the
Republic. The agreement is
terminated. Your family will be safe.
"What "
Blinding white flared from Ashtay. I tried to drop behind the desk, but the
whiteness flared through the
screens. Then& blackness&
Chapter 50 Chiang
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I had duty on Saturday. Used the monitors to check on Brazelton every hour.
Sometimes more often. He
was safe, healthy, bored. Scanned the news nets. Nothing more than what [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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