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Dan liked his world neat. It wasn’t because, as some people thought, he had obsessive compulsions—he didn’t—or that he was a control freak. Dan didn’t need his world neat, he simply preferred it that way. He’d learned early on there was a specific kind of power to being ruthlessly organized. Knowing where everything was meant he could access it when it was needed. It also meant that people knew to rely on him and being depended upon meant power. Systems existed for a reason, as did the fulcrums around which they turned. A clock was nothing but a dial of printed numbers without its hands. —Richard Kadrey & Cassandra Khaw/The Dead Take the A Train
