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Book: Zone One
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Colson Whitehead _ Zone One
the Lieutenant's theory of the barricades. Yes, they were the only vessel strong enough to contain our faith. But then there are the personal barricades, Mark Spitz thought. Since the first person met the second person. The ones that keep other people out and our madness in so we can continue to live. That's the way we've always done it. It's what this country was built on. The plague merely made it more literal, spelled it out in case you didn't get it before. How were we to get through the day without our barricades? But look at him now, he thought.
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Colson Whitehead _ Zone One
Where the goblin world and its assaults were banished and there was nothing but possibility
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Colson Whitehead _ Zone One
As before, home was a beloved barricade. When school, work, the many-headed beast of strangers and villains comprising the world threatened to destroy, home remained, family remained, and the locks would hold, the lullabies would ward off all bogeymen. He was trapped in this house and he couldn't think of where else he'd rather be."
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Colson Whitehead _ Zone One
He stopped hooking up with other people once he realized the first thing he did was calculate whether or not he could outrun them.
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Colson Whitehead _ Zone One
It was the sound of the god of death from one of the forgotten religions, the one that got it right, upstaging the pretenders with their billions of duped faithful. Every god ever manufactured by the light of cave fires to explain the thunder or calling forth the fashionable supplications in far-flung temples was the wrong one. He had come around after all this time, preening as he toured the necropolis, his kingdom risen at last.
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Colson Whitehead _ Zone One
He was a rube, but he was no tourist.
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Colson Whitehead _ Zone One
Judge not the dysfunctions of others, let ye be judged.
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Colson Whitehead _ Zone One
The future? The future was the clay in their hands.
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Colson Whitehead _ Zone One
He hovered on unexceptionality.
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Colson Whitehead _ Zone One
Mark Spitz backed away from the fucking corn.
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Colson Whitehead _ Zone One
Even angels are animals.
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Colson Whitehead _ Zone One
He possessed a strange facility for the mandatory.
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