christopher brown

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 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 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 8, 2021 by achrilock

“The wildest-looking puppets were the corporate raiders. They wore suits with pirate flags on the back and combat boots instead of dress shoes. They each had a gun in one hand and a wad of cash in the other.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Tropic of Kansas’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/07/08/11092/

July 2, 2021 by achrilock

“It’s comin’. Look busy.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Tropic of Kansas’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/07/02/10921/

June 10, 2021 by achrilock

“A succinct recitation of how it was that all real estate in the state, and the whole country, was ultimately owned by the government, and everyone else just had a kind of permission to occupy it or extract resources from it or both. An idea at the base of American law that went all the way back to William the Conqueror divvying up England among his victorious warlords. But one that, when you dug down to the roots, had no principled basis—just whatever force had been able to take it and keep it. If you could expose the flaws behind that premise, it would upend the whole system.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Rule of Capture’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/06/10/10330/

June 9, 2021 by achrilock

“If they were going to read what he was working on, he might as well see if he could scare them back.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Rule of Capture’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/06/09/10296/

June 1, 2021 by achrilock

“Atlantis was a lush, green city of beautiful, happy people, watched over by Athena and guarded by her giant steampunk owlbot, full of benevolent sorcerers.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Failed State’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/06/01/10067/

May 23, 2021 by achrilock

“BOOM BOOM BOOM.
Someone pounding on a door.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Tropic of Kansas’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/05/23/9812/

May 14, 2021 by achrilock

“It’s not about oil, Donny. It’s not about high finance. It’s about grain. That’s where it starts, at least. Bending nature to serve man. Building permanent settlements devoted to it. Forcing people to work on it. All to accumulate surplus. Cities, money, all the foundations of civilization and culture—all that is rooted in our dominion, and comes with inequality and injustice preprogrammed. You just can’t fix it. And the other thing it’s preprogrammed for is collapse. Because people can never get enough.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Failed State’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/05/14/9578/

April 14, 2021 by achrilock

“We are all waiting for the big wave to wash it all away.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Failed State’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/04/14/8859/

March 22, 2021 by achrilock

“People are too chickenshit. They’re afraid of real justice. Because they know if we get it, it might come for them next.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Failed State’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/03/22/8350/

February 17, 2021 by achrilock

“For Donny Kimoe, the hardest thing about adapting was that he had to spend a lot of time in Dallas. That he had grown up there only made it worse. But it was where what passed for justice in those days could be found, far enough from the disappearing coast that they only had to close the courthouses during tornado season.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Failed State’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/02/17/7645/