Children of Strife

Imported from: Clippings/Tchaikovsky-Children-of-Strife.md

Notes built from this: reconciliation-vs-defeat

Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky Source: My Clippings.txt

Highlights

It lasted a long time before it all came down, but even if the ever-after was cut so short, the happily was long dead by then.

Page 413 · Location 4925–4929 · 2026-04-27

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Because no matter how the saying usually went, a vacuum abhorred nature.

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Somehow, over decades of societal tweaking by exactly those not-nice people, this had become a virtue. Work ethic, success as evidence of favour, all that stuff. Only now did she consider that bringing along some people who weren’t themselves ruthless sociopaths might have been an idea.

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[…] this really what we want? But that would have been mendacious.

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