Absence of Gravitas

-The point is: what happens in heaven?
-Unknowable wonderfulness?
-Nonsense. The answer is nothing. Nothing can happen because if something happens, in fact if something can happen, then it doesn’t represent eternity. Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change.

from Look to Windward
by Iain M. Banks
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