Eight Against Utopia
“Pounding along the high static way, he realized that there was not a lot of time before the monitors pin-pointed his position and set guards at every strategic intersection.
Down below, in the confused darkness, bobbing flashes of light showed that some people were moving again. Hand torches, not much used in the city, found by accident in pockets and briefcases by a few pessimists, who were justified at last, made up what light could be got. And a new note from the crowd. Rising and fallin...g like a ululation. The beginning of panic.
Nothing like this had happened in living memory and here was proof that an edge of hysteria lay very close to the surface calm.
Jane Welland had given up the direction of affairs to Kalmar. She ran lightly along beside him. Although the whole situation was as insecure as it could well be, she personally felt a kind of happiness and satisfaction that she had never believed possible. She felt alive, in a way that she had not done before.MoreLess
Down below, in the confused darkness, bobbing flashes of light showed that some people were moving again. Hand torches, not much used in the city, found by accident in pockets and briefcases by a few pessimists, who were justified at last, made up what light could be got. And a new note from the crowd. Rising and fallin...g like a ululation. The beginning of panic.
Nothing like this had happened in living memory and here was proof that an edge of hysteria lay very close to the surface calm.
Jane Welland had given up the direction of affairs to Kalmar. She ran lightly along beside him. Although the whole situation was as insecure as it could well be, she personally felt a kind of happiness and satisfaction that she had never believed possible. She felt alive, in a way that she had not done before.MoreLess
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