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“They were standing on the shore one day, / saw the white sails in the sun. / Wasn’t long before they felt the sting, / white man, white law, white gun.” – ‘Solid Rock’, Shane Howard (Goanna)

Five star read so far. Crichton has done it again.

“On Sundays, Papa took me to the restaurant, where he made … minestrone, and at the end he added pasta shells. I wished the pasta-makers made seahorses and starfish as well as shells.”

“A tram clattered past like a centipede in lead boots.”

I am flying through this! What a fun read.

“The souls of men are bought and sold / In milk-fed infancy for gold, / And youth to slaughter-houses led; / And beauty, for a bit of bread.” — William Blake, ‘Freedom and Captivity’

“Everybody’s looking for their tiny piece of meaning. Some fleeting, perfect thing that might make them more alive.”

“The bell… The bell regulated everything. It gave me orders and I executed them blindly. I hated that bell. Whenever I happened to dream of a better world, I imagined a universe without a bell.” 💔