Context
“ Layer upon layer of history: like winter clothing, peeled off in the warmth indoors, we reveal a proud people—superstitious yet secular, intellectual and family-loving — who have suffered greatly ...
Leaning back in her cushioned seat, Ro regarded the smartcart in the aisle beside her.
‘Quelque chose à boire?’ The device had noted her Swiss citizenship; Ro’s canton-reg mistakenly listed her primary tongue as français: a piece of misinformation destined to spread through EveryWare.
‘Non,... merci.’ To her other side, the window overlooked blue skies, with grey cloud cover nestling below, hiding the winter-bound countryside.
... fodder for gulags, when the secret police would knock upon the doors at night, arresting innocents for sedition. In the one country which suffered most in the TwenCen war against the Nazis, where every family was touched by bereavement, a national paranoia ironically replicated the worst of— She minimized the holo, maximized the other: the message she had read no more than two dozen times since boarding the flight and checking her h-mail.MoreLess
Leaning back in her cushioned seat, Ro regarded the smartcart in the aisle beside her.
‘Quelque chose à boire?’ The device had noted her Swiss citizenship; Ro’s canton-reg mistakenly listed her primary tongue as français: a piece of misinformation destined to spread through EveryWare.
‘Non,... merci.’ To her other side, the window overlooked blue skies, with grey cloud cover nestling below, hiding the winter-bound countryside.
... fodder for gulags, when the secret police would knock upon the doors at night, arresting innocents for sedition. In the one country which suffered most in the TwenCen war against the Nazis, where every family was touched by bereavement, a national paranoia ironically replicated the worst of— She minimized the holo, maximized the other: the message she had read no more than two dozen times since boarding the flight and checking her h-mail.MoreLess
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