2 Quotes by Isabel Pelech

Summerisle also removes the ability to consider things trivial. Every choice becomes potentially disastrous, even saying hello. Most known sapient species require triviality; the lack of it is devastating to the psyche. And devastating the psyche is a necessary component of many kinds of mind control.

and I know I was going somewhere with this, I just seem to have followed the sentence into a blind alley only to wake up later with a headache and my pockets empty of spare vocabulary. Again. Where was I when I lost you?