Kapitel 44: Chapter 44: Hymn of the lost and the damned

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"The Sirens have a more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never."

–Franz Kafka

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If any of what we were doing somehow reaches the light of the day, I don't think it's really going to be a surprise if people these days were to find out that at the heart of it all, the government actually lies to its citizens on a regular basis.

And it was most likely about something (I'd like to replace that word with 'anything') that could potentially cause mass hysteria.

For the greater good, they say.

Because after what happened, after everything that my partner and I have seen... and have been through, I've been thinking more and more lately about the fact that I am now a part of one of those lies–a lie that could never make me look upon the ocean the same way ever again even though I was once a respected marine biologist.