“Despair, dismay, disorientation, and delusion: the four horsemen of the bureaucratic apocalypse are coming my way.”

— Charles Stross, The Laundry Files

Source: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 5, “The Office” (p. 77)

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