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Date Posted: Sat, March 25 2023, 8:48:22
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Saturday

The following quotation is from An Echo In The Bone by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2009 All Rights Reserved. Chapter 52 Conflagration


Had I ever doubted the existence of something like telepathy, this would have been enough to quell my reservations. The soldiers were already at the breaking point from St. Clair’s delay and the constant drum of rumors beating on stretched nerves. As the fire on Mount Independence spread, the conviction that the redcoats and the Indians would be upon us at once spread from mind to mind without the necessity for speech. Panic was loose, spreading its broad black wings over the fort, and the confusion at the water’s edge was disintegrating into chaos before our eyes.


“Come, then,” Jamie said. And before I knew it, I was being hustled down the narrow steps of the battery. A few wooden huts had been set on fire - these on purpose to deprive the invaders of useful matériel - and the light from the flames lit up a scene from hell. Women dragging half-dressed children, screaming and trailing bedclothes, men throwing furniture from windows. A thunder mug crashed on the stones, sending shards of sharp pottery slicing across the legs of the people nearby.

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[> How fear and panic can cause mob mentality so quickly. It spreads like gas on fire pulling everyone in. The horror of being swept along in this nightmare of escape and basically just hoping to get down and away without being trampled. -- Kathy in PA, Sun, March 26 2023, 3:38:57


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[> It's easy to get caught up in the panic. The brain switches gears, knocks out common sense, for the most part, and all goes kaboom. It is frightening how easy is to capture a person's inclinations, their thoughts and beliefes,twist them, and be swept away with the crowd, shouting chants and beliefs that you don't agree with. You wake up from your stupor of emotion and wonder what in the name of God did you just chant? -- Betsy BFS, Mon, March 27 2023, 9:13:52


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