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Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell

The Human Condition

with many of the men killed in battle,

Charlotte Gilman • Herland

Mr Brooke’s conclusions were as difficult to predict as the weather: it was only safe to say that he would act with benevolent intentions, and that he would spend as little money as possible in carrying them out. For the most glutinously indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit; and a man has been seen lax about all his own interests

Rosemary Ashton • Middlemarch

Human beings in there were excreting into steel helmets which were passed to the people at the ventilators, who dumped them. Billy was a dumper. The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the human beings were quiet and trusting and beautiful. They shared.

Kurt Vonnegut • Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel

and so on,

Kurt Vonnegut • Slaughterhouse-Five

anthropomorphically.”

Jessica Anya Blau • Mary Jane: A Novel

JARED MASON GRIFFIN III, aged 35 (too late to become an interesting character like you!) Nephew of an earl-level Equity Lord (don't you envy him?) Married to that sunken bitch on his right They go on these little escapades to escape their own crippled lives. (why are you here?) Hackworth looked down and tried to read the placard on his own chest

Neal Stephenson • The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)

He was so snug in there that he was able to pretend that he was safe at home, having survived the war, and that he was telling his parents and his sister a true war story—whereas the true war story was still going on.