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We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.Colson Whitehead
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Mark Spitz didn't ask about Harry. You never asked about the characters that disappeared from a Last Night story. You knew the answer. The plague had a knack for narrative closure.Colson Whitehead
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Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.Colson Whitehead
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A society manufactures the heroes it requires.Colson Whitehead
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New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example.Colson Whitehead
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Mark Spitz had met plenty of the divine-retribution folks over the months. This was their moment; they were umbrella salesmen standing outside a subway entrance in a downpour. The human race deserved the plague, we brought it on ourselves for poisoning the planet, for the Death of God, the calculated brutalities of the global economic system, for driving primordial species to extinction: the entire collapse of values as evidenced by everything from nuclear fission to reality television to alternate side of the street parking. Mark Spitz could only endure these harangues for a minute or two before he split. It was boring. The plague was the plague. You were wearing galoshes, or you weren't. .Colson Whitehead
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Nowdays, Rosie the Rivetere was a former soccer mom who had just opened her own catering business when Last Night came down and her husband and kids were eaten by a parking attendant at the local megamall’s discount- appliance emporium.Colson Whitehead