Status Updates From The Place of Dead Roads (Th...

…with the sleek pomaded smug expression of a man who has just sold the widow a fraudulent peach orchard.

It’s not a question of shoot first and ask questions later. We never ask questions. We are here strictly in the capacity of Stoppers, our function to Stop. To arrest.

…the smell of modern evil is said to resemble burnt plastic and rotten oranges…only different…so many smells you can’t quite classify because you never quite smelled them before and you have to approximate.

Kim dislikes England on first contact. The porters are deferring to the signal presented by his clothes and luggage. They don’t see him. He infers correctly that the whole place operates on hierarchical categories that determine how everybody treats everybody else, categories carefully designed to make sure no one ever sees anyone else.