Status Updates From Calma piatta

"There’s no way we can signal her?” Mrs. Warriner asked. “Just one. Set this one afire.”😵🔥

"She wondered what crimes the human race could have found to commit without those great ennobling causes like freedom, religion, and love."

"That was the horror of it, she thought. Conscious evil or malicious intent you could at least communicate with, but Warriner was capable of destroying her with the pointlessness and the perfect innocence of a falling safe, and with its same imperviousness to argument."

"All the landmarks and reference points of rational existence had been so suddenly jolted out of position, she couldn’t orient herself. It was as though they were threatened with destruction by the blind and impersonal trajectories of some hitherto placid machine that had run amok through a short circuit in its wiring."

"What was it? Terror? Terror of what? For some reason he was thinking of the way Warriner had come aboard, the trance-like stare, the convulsive lunge onto the deck, and the way his fingers had flattened themselves around the handrail.'