Posted on Tuesday, 8 February 2011
We look for spinning, wobbling plates; places where it feels that matters could go either way, where another spin, another input of energy might restore stability, but where, equally, just a little more neglect - or even a nudge in the right/wrong place - could produce catastrophe. There are interesting lessons to be gleaned from the wreckage that results. Sometimes you cannot tell everything about a thing until you’ve seen it broken.
Iain M. Banks, Transition, p. 89
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