China Miéville book The Junket
The Junket (p. 320)
Short Fiction, Three Moments of an Explosion (2015)
“Then I reckon we got ourselves a good old-fashioned standoff."
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Nobody moved, or said anything, for the next few moments.
"Old-fashioned standoffs are mighty borin”
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