Atom (2015)
Atom
“Turow was sat in back looking beleaguered. Maddy brought up a screen in the rainblurred windshield. ‘It’s called Stag Mother, Look at Me.’ Atom scrolled, reading as they peeled out. ‘An alert child could tell you that life shrinks like a low island. Organised religion added Jesus to the food groups. The past is killed off by American marksmen. The obligation to possess money, the forced flowers of convention, replicated controversy, canned gunfire, the ordeal venom of litigation, the dwindling ...comb-over of western culture - here, written in blood and English, is the hobbling of humanity. Mankind arms the threshold of inspiration lest it be taken by wit.’ ‘We’ve got a tail,’ said Atom. ‘Ambition shows on my watch. It is absurd to believe that nature attacks morality - likewise we are unfit to judge the scurrying creatures within our walls. They are alien to us, and so what is the measure of their greatness or their folly? Insects are not costumed. Trends neglect to illuminate them and their souls are not copied.MoreLess
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