Inferno: a Chronicle of a Distant World (The Galactic Comedy)
“And as you walk, you keep asking yourself: How could they not have learned? The whole galaxy knew about Gama Labu. Once the jasons got rid of him, how could they have let it happen again? Where were they when the torture chambers were rebuilt, the massive trenches filled once more with bodies?
These were intelligent people. They had to know what was happening, had to feel the same revulsion toward Labu that all sentient beings felt.
You look around at the smoldering ruins and shake your head in bewilderment. No civilized being wants to live like this. No civilized being, having undergone the totalitarian rule of a genocidal maniac, willingly accepts the yoke of another. Where was the opposition? Could it really have been just one schoolteacher and a handful of children?
And the moles? How could they fall for the same old line again? Even if the jasons hadn't learned, surely the moles could have seen what was coming. When you get away from the death and the destruction, is this planet ...so damned lovely that you leave all sense of self-preservation behind just to live here for as long as you can before they roust you out in the middle of the night and spirit you away to some torture chamber or mass grave?MoreLess
These were intelligent people. They had to know what was happening, had to feel the same revulsion toward Labu that all sentient beings felt.
You look around at the smoldering ruins and shake your head in bewilderment. No civilized being wants to live like this. No civilized being, having undergone the totalitarian rule of a genocidal maniac, willingly accepts the yoke of another. Where was the opposition? Could it really have been just one schoolteacher and a handful of children?
And the moles? How could they fall for the same old line again? Even if the jasons hadn't learned, surely the moles could have seen what was coming. When you get away from the death and the destruction, is this planet ...so damned lovely that you leave all sense of self-preservation behind just to live here for as long as you can before they roust you out in the middle of the night and spirit you away to some torture chamber or mass grave?MoreLess
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