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The Plague
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Naturally, a historian, even an amateur, always has data, personal or at second hand, to guide him. The present narrator has three kinds of data: first, what he saw himself; secondly,
“Jerry Crosby didn’t live on the island. He lived miles away on the mainland, in a western municipality that grandly called itself Royal Palm Beach.”
― Squeeze Me
― Squeeze Me
“He reminded himself that he really didn’t want to fight with everybody on his own team, and he waited in controlled impatience for this god-dam draft-dodging useless hippie pot-smoking disrespectful radical son of a bitch bastard to say whatever it was he was going to say.”
― Bank Shot
― Bank Shot
“Quite right!” Cottard was growing more and more excited. “That would be a great idea, starting again with a clean sheet.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“some of them might have been awakened by the sound of the truck engine going past their units, but it isn’t unheard of for people to arrive or leave a trailer park in the middle of the night.”
― Bank Shot
― Bank Shot
“with much interest the mortality figures that were announced every Monday. They showed a decrease.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
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