Their faces are all wrong, torn up with hatred and misery and vindictive glee.

qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division [Amazon, Publisher, Author, Wiki]

Hermetic quote qntm There is No Antimemetics Division faces all wrong torn uo hatred misery vindictive glee

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  5. “Listen, you! We expect nothing from you…we have burnt our hope as far as you are concerned…we want to speak to the ones who are prepared to stop eating their food. Misery is your food… scum-filth party politics is your food…when will you look down and see what is on the end of your fork – the naked lunch? We give up, you little people, your tenacity, your insistence on little wretched miseries amazes us. Stop reading this now. Because it is highly unlikely that you are one of those able to understand us.”