“The Regime has become so smug it can't tell the difference among the revolutionary, the innovative, or the merely various.”

—  Sheri S. Tepper

The Visitor (2002)
Context: The Regime has become so smug it can't tell the difference among the revolutionary, the innovative, or the merely various. The high command knows so little about the outside that if I came back with a fully equipped chemical laboratory and told them I'd found it in a cave, they'd probably believe that, so long as I brought it back piecemeal in my saddle bags, thus proving I hadn't known it was there beforehand.

Ch. 37 : leaving bastion

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