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T I N Y

In war, there isn’t room to be in-between. You are dead, or you are alive, or you are oblivious like a god on a bender. This is the line for veterans, this one for single people, this one for WIC. For one side to have power, the other side must not. This is less hopeless than it sounds, but it is generally true in wars that use bombs, and wars that use unequal wealth, inadequate health care, and other kinds of terror.

Both / and thinking frightens people. So does yes, and.

When someone is already dead, and you look at them again and again, it is an obscenity.

War does this to people.