Turkel’s voice was very quiet. “What is it, Tallow?”
“It’s information, sir. It’s the work of a very methodical, very functional madman who is writing a book out of machines that kill people. It’s an information flow, it’s code, it’s pictograms, mathematics that mean nothing to anyone but him. The work of a serial killer in permanent totem phase, permanently energized, permanently in the moment and permanently laboring to complete his message to history. That’s what’s been set loose in Manhattan over these past twenty years, sir.”
— from Gun Machine
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I’m presuming it’s still this deep-seated neurosis that the British are going to come back. I get that you have bears and things, but I don’t think you need assault rifles or rocket launchers to scare them off.
Warren Ellis on America’s gun culture. You must read the rest of the interview on latimes.com (via thisisgunmachine)
