“How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“In these dark times people prefer to look away from everything they would rather not see.”
Ch 20
The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun
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Context: Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death "He is going to pay his debt to society," but: "They are going to cut off his head." It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.
