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Citat om pengarnas magnifika skönhet
Jag hittade ett vackert citat apropå pengar i Stranger In a Strange Land (1961) av Robert Heinlein. Romanens huvudkaraktär, en marsian vid namn Valentine Michael Smith, har precis greppat innebörden av pengasystemets betydelse:
Then suddenly, with a grokking so blinding that he trembled, he understood money. These pretty pictures and bright medallions were not ‘money’; they were symbols for an idea which spread through these people, all through their world. But things were not money, any more than water shared was a growing closer. Money was an idea, as abstract as an Old One’s thoughts – money was a great structural symbol for balancing and healing and growing closer. Mike was dazzled with the magnificent beauty of money. The flow and change and countermarching of symbols was beautiful in small, reminding him of games taught nestlings to encourage them to reason and grow, but it was the totality that dazzled him, an entire world reflected in one dynamic symbol structure. Mike then grokked that the Old Ones of this race were very old indeed to have composed such beauty; he wished humbly to be allowed to meet one.
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