“Unlike Agents Vann and Shane here, who are being wholly disingenuous, you might be speaking out of genuine ignorance and not just your usual levels of casual obstructionism.”

—  John Scalzi, book Lock In

Source: Lock In (2014), Chapter 3 (p. 40)

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