BE: easily dissed, easily missed

[Rev'd Seventy-Six]

p.321:
"...the unreadable vistas of city shadow out the windows. Poisonous
blue masses he doesn't want to see but keeps drawing back the drapes a
little to blink through at for as long as he has to."

P's perspective on the day?

Close enough to witness, and stifle a quaver. His style is leaner as a
result: a desire to speak plainly to the world, to whomever may read,
hopefully zealous tube-fed idiots who mouth the word "nonviolence"
with the same smarmy distaste a Southern Methodist uses to glaze
"hippie", because saying Fuck You to the right people may not buy you
into any eternal rewards but a little old fashioned righteousness
can't hurt, either, so gone are the rolling single-page sentences. He
keeps it cool, but keeps peeking out the blinds, because *something*
is happening out there...

"'How could predicting market behavior be the same as predicting a
terrible disaster?'"
p.320
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