Part 1, Chapter 6 (p. 26)
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This whole place is death. No, that’s unfair—this place isn’t death, this place is indifference. This place is utterly neutral on the question of whether he lives or dies; it doesn’t care about his last name or where he went to school; it hasn’t even noticed him.
— Emily St. John Mandel
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "This whole place is death. No, that’s unfair—this place isn’t death, this place is indifference. This place is utterly neutral on the question of whether he lives or dies; it doesn’t care about his last name or where he went to school; it hasn’t even noticed him." in the context of "Part 1, Chapter 6 (p. 26)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel (born 1979) is a Canadian novelist.
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