They could do anything. That, however, was part of what made it difficult to bring {it} to a close. Infinite possibility was going to collapse, in the act of choosing, to the single world line of history. The future becoming the past: there was something disappointing in this passage through the loom, this so-sudden diminution from infinity to one, the collapse from potentiality to reality which was the action of time itself. The potential was so delicious- the way they could have, potentially, all the best parts of all...time, combined magically into some superb, as-yet-unseen synthesis- or throw all that aside, and finally strike a new path to the heart of just government. . . .To go from that to the mundane problematic...was an inevitable letdown, and instinctively people put it off.
( Kim Stanley Robinson )
[ Blue Mars ]
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