Maybe that’s why everyone died young. Some of the questions… - George W. S. Trow

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Maybe that’s why everyone died young. Some of the questions you didn’t dare ask about Earth People’s Park were: Where is it? Who will run it? Will anyone want to do the real work? Like the global economy now, it was just something assumed, and the people in the room were there to embody the zeitgeist of it and kill the people who didn’t belong (or seem to belong) in the body of the zeitgeist.

George W. S. Trow

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George W. S. Trow (September 28, 1943 – November 24, 2006) was an American essayist, novelist, playwright, and media critic.

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Alternative Names: George William Swift Trow, Jr.

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