"Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance" by Richard Powers

Paperback edition.

• "We must be able to endure seeing the truth, but above all we should pass it on to our fellow men and to posterity whether it be favorable or unfavorable to us."
• "a man with moral cause stands outside the law"
• "foolishness went over better in public than gravity"
• "Technology could feed dreams of progress or kill dreams of nostalgia."
• "He embodies the unsolvable paradox at the heart of modern man."
• "When we don't know what we are after, we risk passing it over in the dark."