“The resources would have to come from that absurd wall project. The city was too big to surround effectively. The project could not be justified. It was a tool for transferring the wealth of the state to a few individuals.”

—  Glen Cook , Dreams of Steel

Source: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 29 (p. 332)

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