How odd and yet perfectly logical that a description of a dystopian future defined by cannibalism and disassociation has the same feel as America under Trump:
“It’s a shrill silence that can be seen on people’s faces, in their gestures, in the way they look at one another. It’s as if everyone’s lives have been detained, as if they were waiting for the nightmare to end.” Pg. 92 of Tender is the Flesh, by Agustina Bazterrica.
But at least in that world they are subject to Big Umbrella, not Big Oil:
“Here everyone uses an umbrella when they go out. It’s only logical.”
“Have you ever stopped to think that maybe the umbrella industry saw an opportunity and the government got on it?” Pg. 95
