He made a face. “Arguments, speculation—conspiracy theories of all kind. The usual thing, right? No one is… — Kim Stanley Robinson
He made a face. “Arguments, speculation—conspiracy theories of all kind. The usual thing, right? No one is ever simply assassinated anymore. Ever since your Kennedys, it is always a matter of how many stories you can invent to explain the same body of facts. That is the great pleasure of conspiracy theory—not explanation, but narrative. It is like Scheherazade.”
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