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“Wallfacer Rey Diaz, if what you say is true, then that is inappropriate. So long as the principles of the Wallfacer Project still hold, Wallfacers have legal immunity, and none of their words and actions can be used as evidence to charge them of a crime,” he said.
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)

from the hiss of Pemulis’s inhale Hal can tell that Dr. Dolores Rusk is in the room even before he takes his eyes from a C.T. who’s sitting pulsing with swollen proximity in his seagrass swivel-chair and almost done coolly bending a giant paper clip into a sort of cardioid or else sloppy circle:
David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
And after Moses’ aides finally did realize the implications of the attendance figures, they still took a long time to tell RM about them. For they were afraid to tell him. Knowing the blind, punishing rages—and, in some cases, the ostracism, the severance from power and prestige and money—with which RM greeted bad news, not only Witt but the execut
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visit or chat, I didn’t mind, as long as I could continue working. I enjoyed
Colin Powell • It Worked for Me
The Mr. X Interviews Volume 2: World Views from a Fictional US Sovereign Creditor
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Jeff Bezos famously takes this to an extreme—based on his distrust of in-meeting