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The Dreams of the Descendants

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“Soon as he sat down, Joe saw it in his face clear as a stream - fear. It lived back behind his eyes, leaked out of his pores. Most people didn't see it because they mistook its public faces - hatred and ill temper - for rage. But Joe had studied it for two years in Charlestown, and he'd discovered that the worst of the men in there were also the most terrified - terrified of being found out as cowards or, worse, victims, themselves, of other terrible and terrified men.”

“But she knew herself. Her body longed to feel pain, to exact it, but her mind feared it too much to allow herself the freedom to. Besides, her knuckles were already blistering from the beating they’d been taking for the better part of an hour. Without the gloves she’d have shattered a hand by now. Wouldn’t that be just like her. To fear pain so and yet stumble into it at every opportunity.”

“A society that cultivates perpetual threat narratives often sows the seeds for actual violence.”