BURNING CHROME
“Now wonder has gone away, and I seem to forget that all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference between those born of real things and those born of inward dreams, and no cause to value the one above the other. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have until now harmed us little, but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will …