brightmaiden: LITERATURE MEME: [2 / 10] prose works ≽ Illusion by Paula VolskyShe had never r

brightmaiden: LITERATURE MEME: [2 / 10] prose works ≽ Illusion by Paula Volsky She had never really paused to analyze the forces at work in Vonahr. She had lived from day to day, conscious and resentful of the steady, remorseless, and apparently unopposable constriction of her world. She had mourned the passing first of luxuries and privilege; then of freedom and legal redress; and finally of security, protection, justice, safety. The magnitude of such oppression was almost impossible to grasp in any concrete sense. She had experienced keener resentment at the loss of her right as an Exalted to stroll in the Havillac Gardens between the hours of noon and six than at the loss of her right to legal counsel should she be summoned before the National Tribunal. The one was immediate and intensely galling; the other—simply fantastic beyond comprehension. -- source link

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