Fractions by Ken Macleod

Author:Ken Macleod [Macleod, Ken]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2008-10-27T23:00:00+00:00

If you had been whaur I hae been

ye wouldnae be sae canty-oh.

If you had seen what I hae seen

on th’ braes o’ Killiecrankie-oh…

They heard it out. Jordan turned to her, his ears burning.

‘Point taken,’ he said.

‘Is it that bad?’ Sylvia asked.

‘It’s bad,’ Janis said. ‘Don’t get me wrong – it’s not like it’s Afghanistan. I’m not talking about atrocities. But people’s lives are being devastated just to make a political point.’

‘But we had all of that under the Hanoverians,’ Jordan said. ‘The enclaves fought all the time—’ He stopped and shook his head. ‘Not all the time, and not like this. OK, OK. But it’s hard to stop. There’s a big sentiment for national unity, and against the mini-states.’

‘If the Republic wins,’ Janis said, ‘it isn’t going to be like Norlonto with taxes. It’s going to be like one big mini-state!’

She laughed for a moment at her own contradictory phrases, but Jordan looked at her sharply.

‘If—’

Janis felt her shoulders slump. ‘The fact is,’ she said, ‘we’re losing.’

‘Oh, yes,’ Jordan said lightly, catching someone’s eye and moving away. ‘I knew that.’

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