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Aspects of my wealth have become autonomous, by degrees; at times they even war with one another. Rebellion in the fiscal extremities.
The unnatural density of my wealth drags irresistibly at the rarest works of the human spirit.
speak as one who can no longer tolerate that simple state, the cells of my body having opted for the quixotic pursuit of individual careers.
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
ever timely
Machine dreams hold a special vertigo.
asking Virek would be like interrogating a fish in order to learn more about water.
Black people, he noted, as his eyes shifted restlessly down the thing’s length, didn’t look half dead under fluorescent light, the way white people did.
lol
And Bobby was working on a new theory of personal deportment; he didn’t quite have the whole thing yet, but part of it involved the idea that people who were genuinely dangerous might not need to exhibit the fact at all, and that the ability to conceal a threat made them even more dangerous.
something in her personality conflicting with the required degree of passivity.
“It’ll be okay,” he said, stroking her hair, his eyes on the main entrance. He had no reason to believe anything would ever be okay for either of them.
