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“Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civilized nightlife”
“You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.”
“So now what? I ask.She is quiet for a long time, long enough that I assume shes gone to sleep.I think this is just part of it, she says. Civilisations fall. People keep going.”
“Fuck you, diet, said Stuart. The diet schmeer is the end of civilisation as we know it.”
“There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”
“The twins were too young to know that these were only history’s henchmen. Sent to square the books and collect the dues from those who broke its laws. Impelled by feelings that were primal yet para...”
“We were the only humans - the only forms of life, in fact - for hundreds of miles in each direction, unreaching and unreachable as we rocketed back towards civilisation.”
“Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?”
“So now what?” I ask.She is quiet for a long time, long enough that I assume she’s gone to sleep.“I think this is just part of it,” she says. “Civilisations fall. People keep going.”
“Fuck you, diet,” said Stuart. “The diet schmeer is the end of civilisation as we know it.”
