Camille shook his head. “So what do you want us to do? Go into the prisons and kill them all?” “At last,” Marat said. “I thought we should never arrive.” “In cold blood?” “However you like.” “And you’ll organize this, will you, Marat?” “Oh no, it would just happen spontaneously. The people, you see, being in such terror, being so inflamed against their enemies—” “Spontaneously?” Camille said. “Oh, very likely.” And yet, he thought: we have a city that is in immediate peril, we have a populace that is enraged, we have a sea of futile unfocused hatred slapping at the institutions of state and
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