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"A copy of a copy of a human being"

"Jesse was a survivor. Jesse did not have a personality. He did not want a personality."

'There was something desperate in his throat that urged the food down and demanded more. What if he didn't get enough? His stomach was an enormous open hole, a raw hole, a wound. He had to fill it with food. He had to stuff it.'

'"Never mind the pessimistic news broadcasts. Believe only what I tell you. I know how to interpret reality for you," he said.'

'She subsided into herself. Eating.'

'There is always a shame beginning deep in his father's face, a dark blood-red glow that creeps up from his throat.'

'The air looks as if it is coming apart - shredding into molecules of sand or grit. It is December 14, 1939.'