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A TRAITOR TO HER CLASS, A FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE. THE PARTY WILL SEE THAT SHE'S REWARDED WITH A PRIVATE ROOM IN THE LABOUR CAMPS.

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Her eyes reflect the glow of the terminal screen. She's been at her desk for fourteen hours today.

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There'll be plenty of time to think of a more personally satisfying answer while you're on the boat. Alone.

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'Sounds like a first stab'.

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A heart without its ribcage.

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Except for the old Kohilan hands, who used to call it 'potatoes two ways'.

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Except for the old Kohilan hands, who called it 'potatoes two ways'.

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Memetic contagion. A massive risk to any modern organisation.

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A liquid supper.

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A can of Vana Kohila. Horizontal in the bottom of her purse.

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A woman glides upside down, chanting. The sun revolves outside the window.

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Spring morning. The girl tugs her father's hand. She presses her nose against the cool glass. A double-deck commuter train, 1/160 scale, rattles across a miniature country scene.

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Fig. 1452: a linocut of an early diving suit, so primitive that the explorer had to be sewn into it before he went under — and cut free after surfacing.

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Dositeo Fernandez... nevermind.

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This conversation is many levels beneath the cat. It knows what it thinks.

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That's... that's none of his business.

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There's no need for counter-measures, this man is deluding himself.

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He might cry later.

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He's a little afraid of you now.

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It's far from the first time he's been threatened like this.

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This is not your fault. The risks were the risks. This is not your fault.

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Closing the neat nutritional loop as the culture digests itself.

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A scab across his heart he can't quite stop picking.

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HE HAS DISCOVERED A WAY TO BRIDGE CYNICISM AND EARNESTNESS. THIS METHOD REQUIRES STUDY.

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Afternoon matinee -- plush red carpet, the frosted glass windows of the box office reflecting warm orange light.

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That's inspiration, baby.

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He wants you to tell him that it's not bullshit. He wants it to be real.

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The reigniting of a custom you'd feared lost forever.

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The world shrinks to the here and now.

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Don't tell him. There's a reason we keep it inside, where it doesn't hurt too much.

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The air gets heavier, as if you were being annexed by gravity.

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Above, a bottomless well, depths aglow with pale fires reaching out.

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He's alone, and not expecting any backup.

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Gun gäng! Gun gäng! Gun gäng!

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But you're faster.

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In a small recording studio deep in the Housing Campaign, a man slips his arms into an old military-style coat. He pops a tablet of pure L-theanine. On the desk nearby, a brown paper bag, reinforced with ultra-thin foil, waits for the head that will unleash its power.

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'Machine Gun King', if your limited Tsunese serves you well.

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Not exactly how you would be best described.

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How would one resist the prospect of such a jacket?

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LIBERAL FALSEHOODS HAVE CORRUPTED HIS MIND. HE NEEDS THE ASSISTANCE OF THE PEOPLE.

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A COMPELLING POINT.

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... here we go again.

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The streets are safe again.

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He is surprisingly jovial compared to when you first met him...

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NO FIELD IN THE PEOPLES REPUBLICS WOULD BE PLOUGHED IN THAT ILL-FITTING JOKE OF AN UNIFORM.

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THE FASCIST PROJECTILE EXPELLED FROM THE BODY POLITIC.

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Ate. He's ate for sure.