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What would you like to witness?’
Lisa Simpson once said,
Haha. Hardly.
‘Think of History as a living organism, with its own defence mechanisms. History will not permit anything to change events that have already taken place. If History thinks, even for one moment, that that is about to occur, then it will, without hesitation, eliminate the threatening virus. Or historian, as we like to call them.
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‘Actually, Dr Bairstow, deep down, very deep down, I’m having a shit-hot party.’
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Leon Farrell, Chief Technical Officer
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‘Historians,’ he said, following my stare. ‘They wear blue.
Technicians wear orange,
Security wear...
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raised plinths.
pods.
Our attrition rate is high.
Haha - there’ll always be an England
Major Guthrie,
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the blue swans.
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Only seven of us trainees turned up on Day One. Apparently, there should have been ten. It seemed an average of only 3.5 trainees actually graduated from each course.
I’m still curious about the attrition rate on assignments,
Sussman.
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Grant,
Nagley
Jordan,
Rutherford and Stevens,
electronic scratchpad fitted snugly inside a knee pocket.
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Haha uh-oh
Dr Bairstow
us all
each of us
What about meals? Dining hall? Staff? Kitchens? Question
Chief Farrell,
Izzie Barclay
Smartarse Sussman,
Simile haha
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Only the Staff Block, Hawking Hangar, and the kitchens were less than two hundred years old.
Professor Rapson
It was exhausting. It was exhilarating. And uncomfortable.
Like marriage, I suppose, but with a lower attrition rate.
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Sussman.
Volatile, noisy, eccentric, argumentative, loyal, dedicated, and impatient
The strange chaos of the first few weeks unravelled into order and routine and we began to get the hang of things.
What is Sussman’s specialty?
the other two specialities in which we were required to be current.
