B72 Geek Love | Katherine Dunn | Vintage

BOOK II Your Dragon-Care, Feeding, and Identifying Fewmets
8 Educating the Chick
❶ He's innocent. As innocent as an earthquake.

BOOK III Spiral Mirror
19 Witness
❷ "Power as cottage industry for the mad. The shepherd is slave to the sheep. A gardener is in thrall to his carrots. Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over. You've seen it a thousand times. We create a leader by locating one in the crowd who is standing up. This may well be because there are no chairs or because his knees are fused by arthritis. It doesn't matter. We designate this victim as a 'stand-up guy' by the simple expedient of sitting down around him."

❸ "The more people we exclude, the more people will want to join. That's what exclusive means."

❹ "I want those who have a choice of tortures and pick me."

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