christopher brown

October 17, 2021 by achrilock

“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/

October 14, 2021 by achrilock

“‘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/

September 3, 2021 by achrilock

“‘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/

September 1, 2021 by achrilock

“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/

August 2, 2021 by achrilock

“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/

July 31, 2021 by achrilock

“Never underestimate the things power and money will do to protect what they have.”
— Christopher Brown, ‘Tropic of Kansas’

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https://achrilock.com/2021/07/31/11646/

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/