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This was perhaps the evolutionary usefulness of the elderly, Bao had concluded: ... - Kim Stanley Robinson - Quotes Donut

Written By Kim Stanley Robinson

This was perhaps the evolutionary usefulness of the elderly, Bao had concluded: to give the young some kind of psychic shield from reality, putting them under a description which allowed them to ignore the fact that age and death would come to them too, and could come early and out of sequence.

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