Pattern Recognition

Now we say that everything Lenin taught us of communism was false, and everything he taught us of capitalism, true.”

the direction they’ve just come, the Curta prototype

on the trestle table and signs its virgin back. Something seems to clunk heavily, at the rear of her ethical universe. “It’s

She’d gone with Peter to visit Stella and Nora in the squat in Moscow, and then on to the dig, where Damien’s shoot had been winding down, and where she’d found herself, out of some need she hadn’t understood, down in one of the trenches, furiously shoveling gray muck and bones, her face streaked with tears. Neither Peter nor Damien had asked her w

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