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Jay Rothermel
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[….] My God, he realised suddenly—they’ve finally beaten me! By they he meant the world at large and men in general, not just the insurgents. Somehow he had always managed to pull the right strings at the right time in order to arrange the pattern of his fate, but now they had taken over and they were going to pull the strings. For perhaps the first time he was depressed by a sense of utter defeat.
— Jun 26, 2025 04:29PM
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Jay Rothermel
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“Well, the leadership seems to be emerging and the violence is being systematised. They’ve acquired weapons and they’re ruthless enough to be dangerous.”
— Jun 26, 2025 07:30AM
Jay Rothermel
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Grimly realistic. What to do with those immune to the deadly virus? Recruit them to an anti-labor malitia to break strikes by workers not given a berth in underground shelters.
— Jun 25, 2025 03:53PM
Jay Rothermel
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"[….]With my usual proverbial luck I managed to find out from a drunken and indiscreet civil servant that the Ministry of Works has put out secret tenders for the construction of more than two thousand deep underground shelters and a like number of big incinerators all over the country. They’re to be built on a crash priority basis during the next few weeks.”
“Incinerators?” she queried.
— Jun 25, 2025 11:22AM
“Incinerators?” she queried.
