“I’d ask you to forego the jingoistic claptrap, but it’s terrifyingly obvious you truly believe it.”

—  M. K. Hobson, book The Native Star

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 20, “The Otherwhere Marble” (p. 284)

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