“I understand your urgency,” I said at length. “You might be onto something big. I get it. Maybe you are. Or maybe you’re wrong, maybe your calculations are off. But if you print that stuff, what do you think it would do to the people?” “They have to know,” she said sternly. As unbendable as an iron bar. “People don’t need to know shit,” I said. “Even if it’s true, which I fucking well hope it isn’t. You can’t say things like that to ordinary people. They don’t have the brains for it.” “Have you no respect for your countrymen?” Lindrick said stiffly. The irony of his question was not lost on
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