Alas, Babylon: A Novel (Harper Perennial Olive Edition)

For all other merchandise, it was dependent upon shipments by mail, express, and highway freight, from jobbers and manufacturers elsewhere.

You’ve read the history of the ‘twenty-nine crash, haven’t you?” “Yes.” “Dozens of people killed themselves for the same reason. They created and lived in an environment of paper profits, and when paper returned to paper they had to kill themselves, not realizing that their environment was unnatural and artificial.

Fort Repose’s financial structure crumbled in a day.

Once both sides had maximum capability in hydrogen weapons and efficient means of delivering them there was no sane alternative to peace.

It takes two to make a peace but only one to make a war.

“As Chief Executive of the United States, and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, I hereby declare a state of unlimited national emergency until such time as new elections are held, and Congress reconvenes.

“LeMay says the only way a general can win a modern war is not fight one. Our whole raison d’être was deterrent force. When you don’t deter them any longer, you lose.

“We won it. We really clobbered ’em!” Hart’s eyes lowered and his arms drooped. He said, “Not that it matters.”

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