“You set it up from the beginning, didn’t you? Forward-thinkingness actually meant suppression of the past. Danzhol, before I killed him, intimated that the town charters were intended to keep me from digging into the truth of what happened in my towns, and I laughed at him, but that’s exactly what they were meant to do, isn’t it? Push the past under the rug and pretend it’s possible to make a fresh start. The blanket pardons for all crimes committed in Leck’s time too. The lack of education in the schools, because it’s easier to control what’s known when people can’t read. And, worst of all,
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