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Here enemies are a luxury only the poor can afford.

For him there's no such thing as a natural death, we'd all live for ever, but for the curses heaped upon us by our enemies.

'Some of the antipsychotic drugs we use they were on to hundreds of years ago.'
'Really? Like what, for example, I mean what drugs?'
'Reserpine is one I know of.'
'I didn't know that,' says Adrian.
'No, well,' says Ileana in a voice that says she is not surprised. 'We call them witch doctors.'

It was errantry that brought them here, flooding in through the gaping wound left by the war, lascivious in their eagerness...They came to get their newspaper stories, to save black babies, to spread the word, to make money, to fuck black bodies. They all had their own reasons. Modern-day knights, each after his or her trophy, their very own Holy Grail.

I haven't enjoyed the beginning a new work this much in quite some time.

Once again, I cannot decide what to read, so have the three whose due date looms the closest due to Interlibrary Loan constraints.