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Because if we did, there would be blood.
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
As I look at this evidence of human life poorly founded, played out, and gone, I try to recover some understanding, some vision, of what this country was at the beginning: the great oaks and beeches and hickories, walnuts and maples, lindens and ashes, tulip poplars, standing in beauty and dignity now unimaginable, the black soil of their making, also no longer imaginable, lying deep at their feet – an incalculable birthright sold for money, most of which we did not receive.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
The Founder comes to personally congratulate us on our accomplishments. I’ve never seen him in person before. He is smaller, frailer than I had imagined. But his skull is on fire. When he speaks, flames spew from his lips. The room is drawn to him.
Terraform
Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans
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