"'It was several years later when I next saw him; you'll know what year I mean. I was still a lawyer, older and slouchier and tubbier than ever. That was life in the old time -- the years in the boxes took it out of you fast.' At that point Tom looked at me, as if to make sure I was listening. 'It was a stupid life really, and that's why I can't see it when people talk about fighting to get back to that. People back then struggled at jobs in boxes, and they spent their whole lives running in boxes like rats. I was doing it myself, and it made no sense.'"
-- Kim Stanley Robinson, The Wild Shore
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