O’Keefe – Fractured Dark (The Devoured Worlds)
From: Quotes batch 17
Concept
“The dark is not the absence of light; it is a fractured state of being where the self is no longer contained by the skin.” (p. 34)
Behavior
“Grief causes a person to behave as if they are already dead, moving through the world without interacting with its physics.” (p. 121)
Game Theory
“When resources are depleted, the game changes from ‘how do we grow’ to ‘who is allowed to stay’.” (p. 190)
Cognition
“Cognitive dissonance is the mind’s way of protecting itself from a reality that would otherwise shatter it.” (p. 256)
Memory
“If the world is devoured, do our memories of it survive in the light that is still traveling through space?” (p. 340)