Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -… [804]

Sometimes if I sleep for a while without hearing the screaming, I see these—the living dead. I’ve always seen them. I’ve never seen them. — , Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -…, 804

Note

The two-sentence paradox closes on itself: the repeated ‘seen’ flips meaning between habitual and absolute, so the same verb says both ‘these are old to me’ and ‘I have refused to look.’ A whole psychological history in six words, and it doesn’t resolve — it just stops.