If a shop has a neon Superman logo in the window, I will enter. If it has a neon Superman logo in the window, a Bat-symbol next to it, and a dragon under the eaves, I am already inside. Robin Sloan More Quotes by Robin Sloan More Quotes From Robin Sloan After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time. Robin Sloan lonely dark book Some of them are working very hard indeed. “What are they doing?” “My boy!” he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious. “They are reading! Robin Sloan eyebrows reading boys There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. Robin Sloan knowing secret sight You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules. Robin Sloan quilts crazy thinking Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books. Robin Sloan home lows book Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage. Robin Sloan batteries fool book Then: I google "time-series visualization" and start work on a new version of my model, thinking that maybe I can impress her with a prototype. I am really into the kind of girl you can impress with a prototype. Robin Sloan google girl thinking He asked <...> Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know <...> I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park. Robin Sloan rosemary parks book ...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages. Robin Sloan wikipedia language guilt America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want. Robin Sloan google defense america I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected Robin Sloan together littles world Kat bought a New York Times but couldn’t figure out how to operate it, so now she’s fiddling with her phone. Robin Sloan phones figures new-york Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of analogies in the thirty-first century. Robin Sloan analogies imagination running (about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor! Robin Sloan use night book The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet. Robin Sloan dawn new-york people Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work. Robin Sloan trying might book So I switch to my MacBook and make my rounds: news sites, blogs, tweets. I scroll back to find the conversations that happened without me during the day. When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it’s actually you that’s time-shifted? Robin Sloan media doe mean I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message. Robin Sloan emergencies messages firsts 'Parable of the Sower' is capital-I Important. Put it on the literary fiction shelf. Put it on the Holy Crap fiction shelf. Put it on every shelf. This is one of the all-time great American novels. Robin Sloan american great holy important I am comfortable combining the old and the new. Robin Sloan old i-am new comfortable
