"I tried not to make judgments. These people were doing something important, all of them. They were testing ways whereby people didn’t have to live in Chicago. That was a wonder to me. I had thought Chicago was inevitable, like diarrhea."
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John Varley, The Persistence of Vision in Nebula Winners Fourteen, p. 4
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