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July 26, 2021 by achrilock

“‘A lot of them didn’t make it through the winter three years ago,’ he said, ‘and the few who remained in the spring said they needed a holiday and set off on a raft. History says that they must have survived.…’”
— Douglas Adams, ‘Life, the Universe and Everything’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/07/26/11594/

July 25, 2021 by achrilock

“So there was delusion and pretentiousness and aspiration and lack of focus there that I didn’t like to see.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, ‘New York 2140’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/07/25/11583/

July 25, 2021 by achrilock

“But the truth she now understood was that law merely served power, like the devil’s butler.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Tropic of Kansas’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/07/25/11522/

July 24, 2021 by achrilock

“(Friends do not exist. The Fulcrum is not a school. Grits are not children. Orogenes are not people. Weapons have no need of friends.)”
— N.K. Jemisin, ‘The Fifth Season’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/07/24/11505/

July 22, 2021 by achrilock

“The COVID-19 pandemic and the 2008 global financial crisis should have been our real lightbulb moments. They should have been the moments that we realised how easy it would be to establish another financial system.”
— David Whyte, ‘Ecocide: Kill the corporation before it kills us’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/07/22/11484/

July 21, 2021 by achrilock

“When they got the vice president of surveillance operations, they put him out to sea in a barge with a handheld camera and told him to send pictures.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Tropic of Kansas’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/07/21/11437/

July 20, 2021 by achrilock

“‘Mother,’ he said, ‘how can it be rude, in this republic of honesty, to name things and people for what they are?’”
— Orson Scott Card, ‘Pathfinder’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/07/20/11421/

July 19, 2021 by achrilock

“‘You are one of the creeps behind a surveillance account,’ said Donny.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Rule of Capture’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/07/19/11399/

July 19, 2021 by achrilock

“It’s clumpy ash for now, not the floating haze of death that stonelore warns against, but no sense being incautious.”
— N.K. Jemisin, ‘The Fifth Season’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/07/19/11386/

July 18, 2021 by achrilock

“God knows. At least, they’ve got some warning.”
— John Christopher, ‘The Death of Grass’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/07/18/11355/

July 16, 2021 by achrilock

“‘Yes,’ said Ford, with sudden and unexpected fierceness, ‘I’ve understood it all perfectly well. That’s why I want to have as many drinks and dance with as many girls as possible while there are still any left.’”
— Douglas Adams, ‘Life, the Universe and Everything’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/07/16/11321/