“The announcers sounded giddily excited. Their faces flushed, their eyes bright. Natural disasters did that to people, made them feel significant, reassured them that their actions mattered.”

— Michael Swanwick , book Stations of the Tide

Source: Stations of the Tide (1991), Chapter 12, “Across the Ancient Causeway” (p. 223)

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