Saturday, May 30, 2015
Quotable: The Virus of Empire
42. To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement. This is a paradox; whoever defeats a segment of the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus, imposing its form on its enemies. Thereby it becomes its enemies.
Source: The Cryptica Scriptura of VALIS by Philip K. Dick (Bantam Books, 1981).
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