"This Joyousness and dispersion of thought before a task of some importance seems to prove that this world of ours is not such a serious affair after all." -Joseph conrad

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Fault-lines (ch. 22)


Riots, strikes, less-than civil disobedience, all shaking the nation apart. Mark saw it coming. For the first time since that boat arrived, he saw the wreck at the end of the tunnel.

“We, this country is sitting on a fault line,” he said emphatically to Bernard.


“That’s a thousand miles east of here.”


“No, more of a political one. This country is being torn into pieces by its own people.”

 “I don’t think its more than a briar patch, really.”


“It’s more than that, it’s a shattered existence.


“The beginning of the end,” he said staring over the harbor. 

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