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I keep saying there’s no Choice, and what I’ve meant is that you can’t choose: you have no right or ability to select one of the two alternatives. But I didn’t go far enough. There’s no Choice because the Choice itself is wrong. It’s a false dilemma. The alternatives are not alternatives at all. Long versus short, quiet versus heroic: they’re the same. In the scope of infinity, in a universe with no edge, human history is a flare and human consciousness is a blink. All lives are short and all lives are quiet.But all lives are glorious too, Cal. To live! To live like a human! You are ordinary and extraordinary all at once. You have a heart that contracts and relaxes and beats out your moments. You are alive and you know you are alive. Your too-short time is long e
