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those who’ve garnered more power than wiser minds would have allotted them tend to think themselves above the reach of law.
the institutional variety, embedded in the structures within which she worked, tended towards the impalpable, veiled and obfuscated by Civil Service procedures that had been hallowed by time, and bore “no relation to the personal circumstances of any officer” as one ancient email had put it.
about the wisdom of putting those mired in their own pasts in charge of all our futures.
a familiar carousel of worry spinning her round the same old circuit until she felt like uncollected baggage.
The present wins every battle, but the past always wins the war.
“And fuck-ups are dangerous. If I had my way, they’d have a department all to themselves. Keep ’em off the streets.”
History alters the landscape, it doesn’t change the people.
an ambient roar; the noise the sea makes when there’s no one on the beach—
one of its underground chambers, guarding its secrets and lies, bound in ledgers like this one.
“Once you turn your own strength into a weakness, they’ll give up on you. They’ll put you in a basement, looking after records.”
he imagined suicide, though could never determine whether Miles would opt for the swift exit or the slow-drawn kind.
