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The Gray soldiers prowl the cities ensuring order, ensuring obedience to the hierarchy. The Whites arbitrate their justice and push their philosophy. Pinks pleasure and serve in highColor homes. Silvers count and manipulate currency and logistics. Yellows study the medicines and
sciences. Greens develop technology. Blues navigate the stars. Coppers run the bureaucracy. Every Color has a purpose. Every Color props up the Golds.
If violence is the Gold sport, manipulation is their art form.”
He gives me something called a hamburger.
The Draconic Labels, Anabasis, and restricted works like The Count of Monte Cristo, Lord of the Flies, Lady Casterly’s Penance, 1984, and The Great Gatsby.
They are tough as nanosteel. Fortunately, they are also very stupid. For instance, this Persephone you have no doubt heard of is nothing more than a dim girl who thought singing a song was worth a hanging.”
Martyrs, you see, are like bees. Their only power comes in death.
eats
He makes me play a game with him in which he puts out both hands flat and facing up and I put mine atop facing down. He tries slapping my hands,
I am chosen tenth. Tenth out of one thousand.
So the point, you silly little children, is not to kill, but to conquer.
Presidents?—a tyrant in necessity’s clothing.”
life. It’s like staring at the ground as you fall from a height. Seeing the end coming doesn’t mean you can dodge it, fix it, stop it.
Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.
“Cheat or be cheated, no?”
“I’m going to rip out your bloodydamn heart!”
Funny thing, watching gods realize they’ve been mortal all along.
One of my last words was bloodydamn.
“That is the problem with youth, Darrow. You forget that every generation has thought the same.”
