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“Don’t know,” said Ash. “Sounds a bit out there to me. Pandemics happen. They’ve always happened. Nature is cruel. Don’t know why people always feel the need to blame someone for them.”
Seems apt.
“I didn’t feel it anymore. I had long since stopped feeling it, that feeling you get coming into Freedman Town the first time, the surreal astonishment that such a place can exist. A not inconsiderable swath of a major city, in a wealthy industrialized country, in the twenty-first century, in such a grevious state of disrepair. An invisible city, floating like a dead island, in the wide water of civilization.”
― Underground Airlines
― Underground Airlines
“It was a reminder of the old truth that for tyranny to flourish all it required was the complicity of good men. In China at that time how many millions of good men, I wondered, were silently watching while this louder, snappier minority of believers marched and sang their way towards famine and destruction?”
― The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
― The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
“When the Down Days first came swinging, the government hired workers in plastic suits to spray the streets each week. Everyone was told to wash their hands with chlorine, disinfect with bleach. Within six months the shelves at your local shop were filled with new brands, plastic bottle after plastic bottle promising all sorts of miracle properties. Some people took the ads to heart, started cleaning like their salvation depended on it. A few suckers even started drinking diluted bleach, thinking it would cure them from the inside out.”
― The Down Days
― The Down Days
“Don’t know,” said Ash. “Sounds a bit out there to me. Pandemics happen. They’ve always happened. Nature is cruel. Don’t know why people always feel the need to blame someone for them.”
― The Down Days
― The Down Days
“Back then, she had to worry about the government tapping her phone. It still probably does, but all the other stuff's been outsourced. Now, instead of just a COINTELPRO operation, she’s got to worry about that and some dude stalking her relatives from his mother’s basement, and kids bombarding her with death threats because it makes them feel like part of the (terrorist) gang, and a troll farm in Russia using the Center as the next cause célèbre to whip up Nazis. All the people who really are a threat to the country; somehow they’ve been convinced to do its dirty work, more or less for free. She would admire it if it weren’t so damn horrific.”
― The City We Became
― The City We Became
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