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“Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed.
‘Imperious Caesar, dead and turn’d to clay, might stop a hole to keep the wind away.’
When you’re in control, neutrality isn’t possible.”
“Rootlessness,” I opine, “is the twenty-first-century norm.” “You’re not wrong and that’s why we’re in the shit we’re in, mate. If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker’s toss about anywhere?”
Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose.