“Flesh has this awful habit of decaying. It seems that the more we live, the more we die. I disapprove of the situation, of course. But does anyone listen to me? Mayhap we should get the Queen to outlaw death. That would do it… She has outlawed everything else.”

— L. K. Samuels

Source: Ferret: The Reluctant King (2020), pp. 215-216

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Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate

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Andrew R. Wheeler (1964) 15th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

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