GR translation: The word reached him during a government newsreel.

[David Morris]

"The Firm" that no one leaves alive might likely mean existence itself.
 "Joining" the Firm for most isn't an option. It is imperative for
survival. But those in the fold still feel guilt, and wish they could leave
it.

David Morris

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:44 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> OK. I guess it refers to what the visitor said later in the text, that no
> one leaves the Firm alive.
>
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:13 PM, János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Piece of news.
>>
>> 2017-07-20 18:10 GMT+02:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> V542.26-38, P551.31-552.3   The word reached him during a government
>>> newsreel. FROM CLOAK-AND-DAGGER TO CROAK-AND-STAGGER, the sequin title
>>> twinkled to all the convalescent souls gathered for another long night of
>>> cinema without schedule—shot of a little street-crowd staring in a dusty
>>> show-window, someplace so far into the East End that no one except those
>>> who lived there had ever heard of it . . . bomb-tilted ballroom floor of
>>> the ruin slipping uphill behind like a mountain meadow, but dodgy as a
>>> trampoline to walk upon, conch-twisting stucco columns tilted inward, brass
>>> elevator cage drooping from the overhead. Right out in front was a
>>> half-naked, verminous and hairy creature, approximately human, terribly
>>> pale, writhing behind the crumbled remains of plate glass, tearing at sores
>>> on his face and abdomen, drawing blood, scratching and picking with
>>> dirt-black fingernails.
>>>
>>> What does "the word" refer to here?
>>>
>>
>>
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