We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.
... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.
In the water I am beautiful.
It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.
Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon.
It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.