Alexandra

“A less negative carbon ideologue then I might interpret the lonely wariness of Mr. Winkler and of Sharon Carlisle as proof of wrongheaded irrelevance. Socrates was equally irrelevant once the Athenians had served him his hemlock. The insipidities of the hollowed out Greeley Tribune, the no comment of most people to whom I “reached out,” and the typical anomie of an American metropolis, whose citizens I rarely saw except in their cars, in retail establishments or at the Fourth of July parade, operated synergistically to create the usual hot wide silence—about fracking, climate change, democracy and every other thing. A certain form of economic development held sway, and that was that.”
― William T. Vollmann, No Good Alternative: Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies

“Whatever boost sixty captured miles might have brought to German morale was erased by the chocolate in the BEF’s packs.

War is morale. War is supply. War is chocolate.”
― Julie Berry

“The mark of a civilized man is the capacity to read a column of numbers and weep.”
― Bertrand Russell

“It's a crime against humanity. Against decency and reason."

"Sometimes it feels like America's short on all of that," Aubrey said bitterly.”
― Julie Berry