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Stony Stevenson is an Englishman conscripted into the Martian Army. A real commander (like Boaz), Stony becomes disillusioned with the army after he realizes it is doomed to fail in the war against Earth, and he and Unk team up in rebellion together. However, when this is discovered Stony is sentenced to death. Unk is force to killing Stony, and strangles him to death in a public execution ceremony.
Stony Stevenson Quotes in The Sirens of Titan
The The Sirens of Titan quotes below are all either spoken by Stony Stevenson or refer to Stony Stevenson. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5: Letter From an Unknown Hero
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(71.) Unk, old friend—almost everything I know for sure has come from fighting the pain from my antenna […] Whenever I start to turn my head and look at something, and the pain comes, I keep turning my head anyway, because I know I am going to see something I’m not supposed to see. Whenever I ask a question, and the pain comes, I know I have asked a really good question […] The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of the pain now, Unk, but you won’t learn anything if you don’t invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.
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Stony Stevenson Quotes in The Sirens of Titan
The The Sirens of Titan quotes below are all either spoken by Stony Stevenson or refer to Stony Stevenson. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 5: Letter From an Unknown Hero
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(71.) Unk, old friend—almost everything I know for sure has come from fighting the pain from my antenna […] Whenever I start to turn my head and look at something, and the pain comes, I keep turning my head anyway, because I know I am going to see something I’m not supposed to see. Whenever I ask a question, and the pain comes, I know I have asked a really good question […] The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of the pain now, Unk, but you won’t learn anything if you don’t invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.
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