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He reached inside his new leather trench coat—I need one, he’d joked with Olga’s people: it’s traditional
well, it wasn’t Hulius’s job to criticize his enemy’s work/life balance.
try to pretend that everything is determined by legality and individual merit. They like to believe it has nothing to do with heredity, or accident of birth, or who went to school with who. Everything is supposed to be orderly, like planets orbiting the sun, each in their predictable track. But the conflict between ideals and personal loyalties warps the entire structure, like an invisible sun passing through the solar system, its gravity dragging orbits out of alignment and causing havoc.
“But that could take hours!” Gomez exploded. “How many hours is a life worth?” Schenk glared at her: “last year, German police officers fired only eleven bullets in anger. All police officers combined. In the same year your police shot and killed more than three thousand civilians, half of them innocent bystanders. No innocents will be shot in my city because of your impatience.”
“This isn’t like that movie Independence Day:
