_________
From Chapter 3, as Ganth is getting "rescued"--
“Congratulations, Mr. Richard Ganth, you have captured my
attention. If you intend to utilize it in a timely manner, I would suggest you
humble your brutish self and ask for help now. Preferably before more of the
AJA shows up to spirit you off into the night.”
-- Xi
-- Xi
_________
From Chapter 4, Xi's explanation of erasure--
“Well, you see, this whole erasure business can be a bit
tricky. I mean, they could just erase entire families for one person’s wrong, but the more people you take out
of the equation, the more things just don’t add up.” She laughs. “Ah, math
humor! Anyway, sometimes, instead of just erasing children along with their oh-so-guilty-of-something-inane parents,
they’ll just implant a plausible
situation in everyone’s mind of how they died. Usually horrifically. Although I
was particularly amused by the one about the microwave explosion.”
-- Xi
-- Xi
_________
From Chapter 4, Xi's explanation of why Ganth is "special"--
“Oh, you! You’re a special little bastard! I wish I’d found
you sooner, but even my amazing self couldn’t spot the error. As it turns out,
you’re little health implant, aka memory
distorter, has an imperceptible defect that, well, renders it completely
useless in terms of its underlying, unknown, sinister function that isn’t
supposed to exist. In other words, it does exactly what it’s supposed to do and
doesn’t do what’s it not supposed to do but normally does.”
-- Xi
-- Xi
_________
From Chapter 4, Sara's angry rant about Xi's secrecy--
“I swear, you are the most infuriating woman I’ve ever met.
You tell me groundbreaking things, and yet you leave the most important parts
out. You tell me they erase people,
and yet you never explains what happens after that! So, please, please, can you
spare one moment of your precious time and tell me? What happens to the people that get
erased? Torture? Prison? Soylent Green is people? What?”
-- Sara
-- Sara
hi, if you write poetry, invite you to join poets rally today.
ReplyDeletehttp://promisingpoetsparkinglot.blogspot.com/2011/10/agreement-for-thursday-poets-rally-week_19.
submit a free verse or a poem of your choice, make poetic friends by visiting 18 poets, within a week, get yourself exposed to wider audience.
bless you.
keep it up.