'He's a monster,' Anne said. 'He'd work in the ruins of Hiroshima.'
'He is working in the ruins of Hiroshima.'
'Why not?' Dubreuilh asked. 'There have always been ruins somewhere.'
can't disagree
[thinking of lives on the left - the history of the left is a history of defeat]
[EDIT it's actually Left Hemisphere and the line is In the beginning was defeat lol. i misremembered everything]