Chapter 1

• 'A palimpsest of unheard sound'
• 'Cardboard devils'
• 'we yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?'
• 'varnished wood'
• 'old ones that still said U.S.'
• 'Something could be exchanged, we thought, some deal made, some trade-off, we still had our bodies. That was our fantasty.'
• 'Angles stood outside it with their backs to us.'
• 'touch each other's hand across space.'
• 'Alma. Janine. Dolores. Moira. June.'
• 'They had cattle prods slung on thongs from their leather belts.'