Kage Baker - Joseph Quotes

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Like children, they're bored by complicated things. More than bored: they feel threatened. Give a child mashed potatoes and butter, and he's happy. He doesn't want to try the rich sauce with capers, in fact he'll cry if he's forced to taste it. You see what I mean?
But, listen, Joseph. A child is easy to control. Keep him happy, and he'll believe what he's told to believe.

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Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know, they get all this neat technology and pass all these humanitarian laws, and then something happens: there's an economic crisis, or science makes some discovery people can't deal with. And boom, people go right back to burning Jews and selling pieces of the true Cross. Don't you ever make the mistake of thinking that mortals want to live in a golden age. They hate thinking.

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There, Joseph said. There's your answer.
It's not an answer, little man. It's many, many more questions.

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You've no appreciation of high romance, that's your trouble, Lewis said, climbing in and starting the motor.
Joseph nodded somberly. Boy meets girl, girl loses boy, everybody dies. I just don't get it.

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