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The Troop
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A pall of hopelessness fell over them. The universe was aligned against them. Why? It struck Max that the universe ought to find better targets. Had to be plenty of psychopaths and deadbeats out there, right? Why pick on a couple of kids?
Maybe I’m reading too much into this but this seems a bit funny to me given that at least one kid probably would’ve been a murderer and two would’ve been deadbeat dads that would’ve damaged their families.
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
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“Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.”
― So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
― So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
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