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Everyone blamed everything on them, everyone knew that they would cause trouble. He even knew from experience what they were like. But who were they?

"Who are they?" Bill asked.

"They are everyone who wants to be one of them," Deathwish said. "They are both a state of mind and an institution... They die off and are replaced, but the institution of they-ness goes on."