“Their numbers swell like viruses until they madden someone with a large army.”
“The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.”
“It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.”
“A large number merely strange”
“The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.”
“A “better” biological virus — like a computer virus — will perhaps just make its host sick, but still well enough to keep spreading the virus”