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But Paulo’s full of shit, too, like when he says I should consider meditation to better attune myself to the city’s needs. Like I’mma get through this on white girl yoga.
“You’ll have used tomatoes as a thickener, then.” “I’ll have used hare’s blood, as God intended before the damned Americas were discovered.
“Interesting—I thought it was dirt, but this seems to be some more uniform substance. Something made this? What process could generate something so noxious?” “Rum distillation,” Jessaline said, stifling the urge to smile when Eugenie looked scandalized. “No wonder,” Eugenie said darkly, “given what the end product does to men’s souls.”
“Dragons are a human thing,” I said. “People have dreamt of dragons in every corner of the Earth.”
“You cannot understand,” Dihya said again. “You would rather waste the rest of your life tilling ever-smaller fields, keeping order in this graveyard. But suicide is anathema to God, and I will not sit and wait for extinction.”
I could KILL Rafkind and the whole First Contact team! What Neanderthal decided to tell the Manka about Christianity? This is exactly why the UC banned Americans from TE teams.
Death felt himself ignored and forgotten—but that was all right. The young did not often think about Death, but Death was no less eternal for their disinterest.
The stuff of which he and his kind had been made had not vanished. The thinker did not matter, so long as thought remained.
The days of Sambo dolls at the corner store were mostly over, but not a lot of Japanese had seen black people anywhere except on television. My parents must’ve felt the same during grad school in Des Moines, she’d always told herself to put things in perspective. It hadn’t helped much.
There have to be bigger “dens of iniquity” in the world. Delhi has poor people coming out of its ears, Moscow’s mobbed up, Bangkok is pedophile heaven. She’s heard there are still some sundown towns in the Pacific Northwest. Everybody hates on New York.
Some grade-A horrible stereotyping there, mate.
