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| <blockquote>“Money,” Clough declaimed, “is the dark unknown god driving us all towards certain bloody doom. A giant formless thing from beyond space with a million genitals. It’s the thing in the horror films that you should not directly look at lest you go mad and all that bollocks. It’s crushed the world into new shapes and all we want to do is drink its dark milk because that is the nature of its horrible fucking magic</blockquote> | <blockquote>“Money,” Clough declaimed, “is the dark unknown god driving us all towards certain bloody doom. A giant formless thing from beyond space with a million genitals. It’s the thing in the horror films that you should not directly look at lest you go mad and all that bollocks. It’s crushed the world into new shapes and all we want to do is drink its dark milk because that is the nature of its horrible fucking magic</blockquote> |
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| <blockquote>The grim impetus of deep history that looks out of his eyes and tells him what to do.</blockquote> | <blockquote>The grim impetus of deep history that looks out of his eyes and tells him what to do.</blockquote> |
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| <blockquote>"Adam searched for the word to describe the nostalgia for things you never knew. He was sure there was one, and that he’d once known it. Nostalgia for a word you once knew. Adam chuckled again, and forced the childproof lid off the plastic canister of pills.</blockquote> | <blockquote>"Adam searched for the word to describe the nostalgia for things you never knew. He was sure there was one, and that he’d once known it. Nostalgia for a word you once knew. Adam chuckled again, and forced the childproof lid off the plastic canister of pills.</blockquote> |
| <blockquote>He hadn’t noticed, it seemed. Maybe everyone else had. Maybe everyone else saw that he had the fog of the abyss around his shoulders and kept their distance, and he really was just the last one to see it.</blockquote> | <blockquote>He hadn’t noticed, it seemed. Maybe everyone else had. Maybe everyone else saw that he had the fog of the abyss around his shoulders and kept their distance, and he really was just the last one to see it.</blockquote> |
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| <blockquote>Sehnsucht. That was the word, wasn’t it? Unusually short for a German compound word with a complex meaning. Nostalgia for a distant country to which we have never been, but which nonetheless may be home. An intense yearning for a comforting alien perfection</blockquote> | <blockquote>Sehnsucht. That was the word, wasn’t it? Unusually short for a German compound word with a complex meaning. Nostalgia for a distant country to which we have never been, but which nonetheless may be home. An intense yearning for a comforting alien perfection</blockquote> |
| <blockquote>“There’s been a slow burn of unrest in Namibia for the last few years. A protester got shot dead the other summer. The elections that winter didn’t do much for it. High unemployment, lots of weird sociopolitical tensions. There’s a whole subsection of youth who were orphaned during their war for independence, and they weren’t being looked after by the state. The U.S. State Department calls it a ‘critical crime threat location,’ which always kind of stuck in my head as a great piece of, you know, official language.”</blockquote> | <blockquote>“There’s been a slow burn of unrest in Namibia for the last few years. A protester got shot dead the other summer. The elections that winter didn’t do much for it. High unemployment, lots of weird sociopolitical tensions. There’s a whole subsection of youth who were orphaned during their war for independence, and they weren’t being looked after by the state. The U.S. State Department calls it a ‘critical crime threat location,’ which always kind of stuck in my head as a great piece of, you know, official language.”</blockquote> |
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| <blockquote>Antigonish</blockquote> | <blockquote>Antigonish</blockquote> |
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