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I have been, I still am, faithful to them.

Why should I begrudge them, since during the hours when my soul crushed the depths of my heart, they were seated there beside me?

O prescripts, I have ended, you see, by respecting you, because I am certain you will never leave me.

Ah! I realize it: your beauty lies in the force of your being. You are like those who never left the sad fireside corner of my poor black heart.

O my prescripts, you are better than a well-beloved: because I know that on the day of my final agony, you will be there, lying in my sheets, O prescripts, so that you might once again attempt to enter my heart.

I don't feel ready at all for my position

Americans are asleep

I should be too...

repost bc of repeated number

“We were gods. But even gods sometimes have to step down from their lofty thrones.”

Merin thought this, but I’m going to cheat and imagine Mike saying it (yeah, I’m a fangirl of the consul’s narration).

“‘Shut your mouth and follow me,’ Mike ordered, and, like a lesser member of the pantheon following an older, wiser deity, I shut my mouth and followed him.”

Yeah, he barely has any dialogue and only appears for a few pages, I know, but I found him especially memorable and likable, and the fact that we later see the consul using the Hawking mat just makes me remember him as someone even more important. Whenever I think of *Hyperion*, the first thing I usually remember is the consul’s narration, and therefore, Mike.

There’s not really much to say about him (because there’s hardly anything about him in the book), I just didn’t want you to forget him.

I found the illustration from the Hyperion Cantos wiki.