quotes

Question 1

beauty

Answer 1

“the paperweight was of not practical use”
“nothing but dead weight in the bag but she found it beautiful”
“what was lost in the collapse:almost everything, everyone; but there is still such beauty”

Question 1

art

Answer 1

“the audience seemed to prefer shakespeare”
“the audience roles for a standing ovation.. front row had tears in his eyes”
“the moments of transcendent beauty and job”
“that made it bearable”

Question 2

hope

Answer 2

She held the paperweight for a moment, admiring it in the lamplight”.
“If I ever saw an airplane, that meant that somewhere planes still took off. For a whole decade after the pandemic I kept looking at the sky.” Dieter
Everything ends. I am not afraid.”

Question 3

purpose

Answer 3

It’s the work itself that’s important to me.”
Jeevan- “I want to do something that matters

Question 4

loss

Answer 4

“What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, everyone; but there is still such beauty” “I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.”“Towns…lived and died and suffered together in the blood drenched years just after the collapse” pg 48 “There’s the death of the body and the death of the soul. I saw my mother die twice.” pg 62 “He likes to say a prayer over the dead.” pg 129 “The Georgia flu was so efficient there was almost no one left.” pg 192 “early reports put the the mortality rate at 99%” p. 253 “This silent landscape.” pg 193 “He wasn’t specifically sad anymore, but he was aware of death at all times

Question 5

memory

Answer 5

“Kirsten couldn’t remember… her mother’s face”“Do you remember when everything seemed so limitless?”“how can you not remember something like that it was beautiful” Alexandra to Kirsten, about a computer screen “an incomplete list, no more” 25 items including police, internet, social media and more “people want what was best about the world” Dieter Arthur “later he’ll remember this as a golden period” about the period of dating Miranda prior to the fame and paparazzi “does it still make sense to teach kids about the way things were?” the friend … Daria says “Isuppose the question is, does knowing these things make them more or less happy?” Kirsten “closed her eyes. A memory from early childhood, before the collapse: sitting with a friend on a lawn” “the more you remember the more you’ve lost” Kirsten to Diello “I have some problems with memory, I can’t remember much from before the collapse” “there seemed to be a limitless number of objects in the world that had no practical use but that people wanted to preserve”

Question 6

tech and civilisation

Answer 6

” do you remeber wehn eveyrhting seemed so limitless”
- dieter -“dreamed about airplanes” - civilisation somewhere

Question 7

survival

Answer 7

“survival is insufficient” “the times we live in forces people to do things” the Travelling Symphony & Kirsten “there’s the death of the body and the death of the soul” the Prophet “if there were newspapers now what else might be possible” p. 264 “at other times it seemed a difficult and dangerous way to survive and hardly worth it” TS between towns
“there’s only survival out there” Frank or Jeevan? “what made it bearable were the friendships, the camaraderie, the music and the Shakespeare… and moments of transcendant beauty and joy