For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
From Joan D. Vinge
The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.
We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.
Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.
What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.
Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.
Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.
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