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January 16, 2021 by achrilock

“He listened to something about some glen or other.
He thought about his miraculous lunchtime.”
— Douglas Adams, ‘So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/16/6730/

January 15, 2021 by achrilock

“It was a death-offering, Stephen, a death-offering.”
— Scott Lynch, ‘The Lies of Locke Lamora’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/15/6700/

January 14, 2021 by achrilock

“Of course we had heard of the Fascists, but it was all in the abstract. It meant nothing more to us than a change of ministry.”
— Elie Wiesel, ‘Night’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/14/6675/

January 13, 2021 by achrilock

“The politics of inevitability is a self-induced intellectual coma.”
— Timothy Snyder, ‘On Tyranny’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/13/6651/

January 13, 2021 by achrilock

“Sorry, friends. This is the real wolf.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘Red Mars’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/13/6632/

January 12, 2021 by achrilock

“Last of all comes the tyrannical man; about whom we have once more to ask, how is he formed out of the democratical? and how does he live, in happiness or in misery?”
— Plato, ‘The Republic’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/12/6604/

January 11, 2021 by achrilock

“She chuckled. ‘Sarat told me you were a sweet boy, Benjamin, but you must understand that in this part of the world, right and wrong ain’t even about who wins, or who kills who. In this part of the world, right and wrong ain’t even about right and wrong. It’s about what you do for your own.’”
— Omar El Akkad, ‘American War’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/11/6575/

January 10, 2021 by achrilock

“The Panther Moderns differ from other terrorists precisely in their degree of self-consciousness, in their awareness of the extent to which media divorce the act of terrorism from the original sociopolitical intent. . . .”
— William Gibson, ‘Neuromancer’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/10/6532/

January 9, 2021 by achrilock

“Regardless of how they articulate themselves, these anti-fascists value the free and open exchange of ideas—they simply draw the line at those who use that freedom to promote genocide or question people’s humanity.”
— Mark Bray, ‘ANTIFA: The Anti-fascist Handbook’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/09/6497/

January 8, 2021 by achrilock

“So you see, I come by my antipathy of crowds rather honestly.”
— Peter David, John de Lancie, ‘I, Q’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/08/6475/

January 7, 2021 by achrilock

“‘But you don’t understand,’ said Ford, his expression slowly ripening from a little taken abackness into rank incredulity, ‘this is the American Express card. It is the finest way of settling bills known to man. Haven’t you read their junk mail?’”
— Douglas Adams, ‘So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/07/6437/

January 7, 2021 by achrilock

“His voice was a low soft purr, like the low soft purr made by the opening of an ICBM silo.”
— Douglas Adams, ‘So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/07/6424/

January 6, 2021 by achrilock

“‘There must be a protest,’ said the cabbie.
‘Or a coup d'état,’ said Donny.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Rule of Capture’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/06/6396/