Status Updates From Δέντρο από καπνό

"’How about some of that incendiary compound you drop on villages?’
‘I'm, I'm—I'm all out.’
‘I might have known. I did know. AID! Del Monte! Canadian! What else? Toronto Symphony Orchestra?’
‘Seventh-Day Adventist.’
‘All of you, oh, my Lord. You're too laughable to laugh at’”

“For a few minutes as the explosions came particularly close the night of Tet she’d felt all pride crushed, all knowledge stopped, all desire, had existed only as naked, abject subjugation. Her sin had seemed small, her salvation or damnation seemed small.