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that as a species we've released forces that are neither managed nor manageable

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The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion—and in essence makes us human—shut down completely

Blackfly Season crystal jewelry and Du MaiRed Bear stood close to the fire and stretched toward the sky, every muscle in his body straining. The veins in his neck stood out like electrical cords. His voice had gone thin and raspy and the words came streaming out of him with a terrible urgency. The words if in fact they were words collided with one another. [Blackfly Season, page 94] According to Detective John Cardinal, the truly diabolical thing about blackflies is their stealthy silence;