under-burrowed

Updated: May 23, 2025

He would soon be in those teeming alien cities as under-burrowed as a gopher village. But Blake did not despair. Their whole barbaric East, he told himself, was only a Chinatown slum on a large scale. And he had never yet seen the slum that remained forever impervious to the right dragnet. He did not know how or where the end would be. But he knew there would be an end.

Arthur Stringer - Never-Fail Blake