## Metadata - Author: [[Adam Roberts]] - Full Title: The Real-Town Murders - Category: #books ## Highlights - A fly was measuring the diagonal of an empty office ground-floor window with its feet. ([Location 1812](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B072V4YM83&location=1812)) - A drone made a meditative om-sound, somewhere to the east. ([Location 1814](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B072V4YM83&location=1814)) - Spend an hour pulling historical footage into your feed, from the period of the great dictators – the Napoleons and the Hitlers and the Mahdis. My dear, you can see it. Watch the crowd when these people make their big speeches. Each one of them is looking up at the podium and seeing their own desires made flesh. People yearning to the stage, thinking: I am chaotic inside, and you must become my order. Or: I feel powerless and therefore you must be Power. Or I desire to be punished, be thou the mighty punisher. I lament the distance and difficulty of God, but you are right here! They are saying: I cannot love unless you embody love for me. I don’t know who to hate until you point me in the right direction. I crave to be led, and you are the leader.’ ([Location 2284](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B072V4YM83&location=2284))