“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”
—Iain Banks, the final interview (2013)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/15/iain-banks-the-final-interview
#Scottish #literature #IainBanks #IainMBanks
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