Lenin suggested that all peasants be compelled to deliver grain by name, and that those who failed to do so “be shot on the spot.

Whenever I can’t sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I’ve been assassinated. I’ve found this is the best way to get comfortable. I imagine I’m in the coffin at my funeral, and people from my past are walking by my corpse and making comments about my demise.

It would in retrospect appear to be a stop on a narrative path that was inevitable, but this is only because most events, most paths, feel inevitable in retrospect.

There is a saying: It won't get better if you picket.

Written By Terry Pratchett

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