Scientists and their research assistants will stroll toward the big lab just north of the Square, where they’ll sit on cushy stools all day, PICC lines hooked to their arms as they experiment with herbal extracts, trying to cure the Great Fatigue. The manual laborers will drift east of Main, toward grueling twelve-hour shifts in the meat processing plant, sewage treatment facility, and cluster of factories that churn out our clothing and other necessities. And hidden among the flow of bodies will be Caldwell’s town supervisors, keeping mostly to themselves, but eyeing the crowd for anyone
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