GR translation: even lost as he might feel again

[Michael Bailey]

Bandwraith wrote ...and the fuel cut off. From that point in time onward,
the rocket was purely ballistic. The only thing that could effect its
predetermined course would have been chance. Some might also invoke grace-
I won't go that far.
>

Neal Stephenson in Anathem - which is not without its charms - wrote,
"Course changes are expensive" // but anyway seems like Slothrop's doing
some kind of decision point calculus (anyone read bush 43's book _decision
points_  ?) - the first "even" reaching back to one point, the 2nd to a yet
further point from which the effects of a change made there would have been
even greater ... and more expensive
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