“Are you saying, perhaps, that I am moved by spite, revenge or, even worse, that I am seeking some sort of perverse thrill in cruelty? It seems to me that you don’t understand what our work here is about. It seems to me that you don’t understand what any of this is all about.” “I do.” “Is that so?” “Bending and aligning reality.” At the time, I was not entirely sure if the phrase applied to this situation. But I did know that most men enjoy hearing themselves quoted. “Exactly. And reality needs to be consistent. How incongruous would it be to find traces of Vanner in a world where Vanner never
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This is how the rich control the masses: buy the publishing conglomerates and the mass media, which controls the news, the current events, which becomes solidified into the historical narrative. Fucking Rupert Murdoch. Fucking Elon musk.
And, for the purposes of this novel, this is why we’ve never heard of Benjamin Trask: Bevel has “pulped” all account of him.
