Ankush Chander’s Reviews > The Dogs of War > Status Update

'Yes, and I could live on, like a battery hen in one of these futile cities. Filling in futile forms, paying futile taxes to enable futile politicians and state managers to fritter it away on electorally useful white elephants. I could earn a futile salary in a futile office and commute futilely on a train, morning and evening, until a futile retirement. I prefer to do it my way, live my way and die my way.'

"'But apart from killing people, you could die yourself.

You could get killed in one of these futile wars.

'Yes, and I could live on, like a battery hen in one of these futile cities. Filling in futile forms, paying futile taxes to enable futile politicians and state managers to fritter it away on electorally useful white elephants. I could earn a futile salary in a futile office and commute futilely on a train, mo

'Mr Shannon, you have the job. You have one hundred days, Mr Shannon, to steal a republic. One hundred days'