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the explosion’s taking place already

12.9 One evening, I confided to Madison my dream of vandalizing everything, of using my insider status to wreak sabotage upon the Project. I knew a boy like you once, she said when I’d finished. Nobody had called me a boy in a long time. It was strange; I kind of liked it. But the thing is, she con…

—p.139 Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
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the explosion’s taking place already

12.9 One evening, I confided to Madison my dream of vandalizing everything, of using my insider status to wreak sabotage upon the Project. I knew a boy like you once, she said when I’d finished. Nobody had called me a boy in a long time. It was strange; I kind of liked it. But the thing is, she con…

—p.139 by Tom McCarthy
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there’s no one to tell about it inspo/dialogue

12.7 I visited Petr in hospital again. The worst thing about dying, he told me as I sat between his bed and the smudged windows, is that there’s no one to tell about it. What do you mean? I asked. Well, he said, throughout my life I’ve always lived significant events in terms of how I’ll tell peopl…

—p.137 by Tom McCarthy
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I started seeing the Project as nefarious

[...] around this time, my attitude not only to the Great Report but also towards Koob-Sassen underwent a sea-change. I started seeing the Project as nefarious. Sinister. Dangerous. In fact, downright evil. Worming its way into each corner of the citizenry’s lives, re-setting (“re-configuring”) the…

—p.134 by Tom McCarthy
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vicissitudes

an ongoing event whose discrete parts and moments, whatever their particular shapes and vicissitudes (vicissitudes! I'd susurrate the word time and again) have run together

—p.111 by Tom McCarthy
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