christopher brown

“You think we don’t talk to each other?”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Tropic of Kansas’

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https://achrilock.com/2022/01/12/14928/

“It was real. Very real. And while you are encouraged to become better, you are not allowed to forget.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Failed State’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/12/10/14130/

“‘The rising race is all rhizomatic,’ crackled the voice inside the machine.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Tropic of Kansas’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/12/08/14090/

“It was like a memorial to their dreams of a future they would want to live in.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Tropic of Kansas’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/11/28/13838/

“‘I’ll be in court in the morning,’ yelled Donny.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Rule of Capture’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/11/10/13477/

“That the American courts were not where the fight could be won. That the way to fight these fascists was not with lawsuits.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Failed State’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/26/13144/

“Do you know what misprision of treason is?”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Rule of Capture’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/25/13119/

“Sampling the hundreds of thousands of entries, she saw how they had lawyered the thing up to make it look legit, even as its arbitrary and political character was evident on its face. The standard for inclusion was low–reasonable suspicion. Of what, exactly, the law was no longer terribly worried about making clear. Suspicion of whatever qualities the people in charge of eliminating seditious threats during the twenty-plus-year state of emergency thought made it worth a tag.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Tropic of Kansas’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/23/13083/

“That got Donny wondering, if you found Atlantis, who would own it?”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Rule of Capture’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/17/12996/

“‘Better than what was.’
‘It’s chaos.’
‘Creative destruction,’ said Sig. ‘It’s the future.’”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Tropic of Kansas’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/10/14/12918/

“‘Oh, spare me. Juries suck and you know it. They get it wrong every goddam time, just about, at least in civil cases, and the bigger the case the worse they screw it up. Kind of like voters do with elections.’
‘When they let them vote.’”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Rule of Capture’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/09/03/12183/

“Seen from the window of an airplane, the landscape between Louisiana and Texas showed all the promise and betrayal of that paradox. All the old oil towns along the coastline that had never really been a line, more like a place where dry land slowly morphed into ocean.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Failed State’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/09/01/12149/

“Beta-test experiments in political form that incorporated the capabilities of the network they had built, and were rebuilding, and making better.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Tropic of Kansas’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/08/02/11694/