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The Little Priests of Violence
I. The Choir of Respectable Ghouls
They came quickly, as they always do.
Before the smoke had fully entered the archive, before the facts had hardened into sequence, before any human being had been permitted the privacy of an unprocessed reaction, they arrived with their grave little faces and their clean microphones and their moral sorrow already warmed to room temperature.
The respectable ghouls.
The podcast men. The democracy mourners. The former architects of catastrophe now employed as custodians of decency. The newspaper moralists whose sentences smell faintly of old mahogany, catered…
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