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January 20, 2021 by achrilock

“Behind the myths of discovery were the truths of violent conquest and colonization, justified by force rather than law.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Rule of Capture’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/20/6898/

January 19, 2021 by achrilock

“Zaphod’s just this guy, you know?”
— Douglas Adams, ‘The Restaurant at the End of the Universe’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/19/6846/

January 18, 2021 by achrilock

“Remember the Canterbury!”
— James S.A. Corey, ‘Leviathan Wakes’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/01/18/6805/

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/