“Every ruler wants to maintain the status quo.”
Tim Powers book The Stress of Her Regard
Interlude “Summer, 1818” (p. 170)
The Stress of Her Regard (1989)
“GOVERNMENT SURPLUS: Employment figures and history books are 'cooked'. Young people are manipulated. The status quo is maintained by an insidious mafiosi piping drugs to the unsuspecting by means of an ever expanding cycloptic media.”
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