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You could yank a knife from a patient’s heart and still watch him bleed to death.
The sectionmen and their families communicate little with one another, and the railroad—their employer—is their only source of contact with the wider world. Little wonder that at each milepost, Johnson finds families “driven to eccentricity by isolation.”
Declining Cities, Declining Unions: Urban Sprawl and U.S. Inequality - Dissent Magazine
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Urras is a box, a package, with all the beautiful wrapping of blue sky and meadows and forests and great cities. And you open the box, and what is inside it? A black cellar full of dust, and a dead man. A man whose hand was shot off because he held it out to others.
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
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