Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -… [905]

This is how we will survive and hold together. It will work. I don’t know how long it will last, but for now, it will work. — , Octavia E. Butler - Earthseed, Book 1 -…, 905

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The triple repetition of ‘work’ performs the very thing it describes: a community held together by sheer assertion. Butler lets the sentence do the rallying rather than narrating a feeling of hope — declarative fragments that sound like a creed, undercut quietly by ‘I don’t know how long it will last.’