7 quotes
Stand-up peeing in a long flowing garment could lead to various mishaps.
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (2019)
Agreement got by compulsion or trickery is not agreement, but a thing akin to slavery. Free minds are the only company worth having.
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (2019)
Her free hand came up. Daisy came up with it, the faded plastic petals floating in front of her face but gradually fading from view as she sank.
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (2019)
“Ted has normal-people teeth because he is old and grew up before this part of the world got Facebooked. After that, the people with education fled to places like Ames, Des Moines, Iowa City. Which includes dentists. A few mainline churches used to run charity dental clinics where you could get a bad tooth pulled, or whatever, but those are being chased away by these people.”
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (2019)
In this dream, Dodge was in the small town in Iowa where he had grown up...the grid street pattern of that town was, decades later, the spatial lattice on which virtually all of his dreams were constructed. It was the graph paper on which his mind seemed to need to plot things.
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (2019)
“I could not be more confused as to what we are looking at right now,” announced Gloria Waterhouse. She was a philanthropist, connected with her family's foundation, nontechnical, and always the first to stand up and request commonsense explanations when the discourse became too academic. She'd assigned herself that role and she did it well.
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (2019)
The amount of time spent asleep didn't really matter. He had decided that the key to it all — the one thing that determined whether the nap would actually refresh him — was the breaking of the thread of consciousness...Even if he woke up ten seconds later, he would be as refreshed — possibly more so — as if he'd slumbered deeply for an hour.
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (2019)