One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to…

J. M. Coetzee
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One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it pursues its enemies. It is cunning and ruthless, it sends its bloodhounds everywhere. By night it feeds on images of disaster: the sack of cities, the rape of populations, pyramids of bones, acres of desolation. ✨ J. M. Coetzee (1980). Waiting for the Barbarians, Penguin Group USA
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