The Network - Jason Elliot
THE NETWORK
JASON ELLIOT
‘Look at the inmost causes of things, stripped of their husks; note the intentions that underlie actions; study the essences of pain, pleasure, death, glory; observe how man’s disquiet is all of his own making, and how troubles come never from another’s hand, but like all else are creatures of our own opinion.’
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
PART ONE
April 2001
Herefordshire, England
Five months before 9/11
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For a few moments the illusi ...