Wrong way going down the one-way road

They come they take
It’s never enough because they can’t relate
To the real world
Thinking that the oyster is just for the pearl
They start those wars
They want to own the land, sea and all the stars
And right those wrongs
They change their history with their poison forked tongues.

All right, who’s they?
A Maybe it’s the government of today
Or B for the big business man who thinks the whole world revolves around him
Or C for the corrupt official for A and B he be the man in the middle
Or D for discoverer, for Cook and Columbus and the pirate plunderers.

-John Butler Trio, One way Road

Nueva Sevilla beaches

They put on their swimming things under their clothes and went down to the sea. The shore was covered in Coca-Cola and Pepsi cans, empty Marlboro and Kent packets, and all the eternally indestructible plastic flotsam of United States economic expansion. Dioniso held up a Coca-cola can and said, 'It would not have been so bad if they still called it Inca-cola.'
Chapter 36; Nueva Sevilla

Louis de Bernieres
Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord

Carnations

There is a disease that affects carnations. It lies dormant in the soil for decades, and then suddenly erupts and destroys all the carnation crop over the area it infests. When this happens, there is nothing to be done but burn the crops, abandon the greenhouses, and desert the land forever. Ambush is ever the way in which ugliness destroys beauty.
On the vast plain outside the capital were countless carnation greenhouses, where workers travailed in appalling humidity amidst clouds of carcinogenic chemical fertilisers and insecticides, producing perfect white flowers to adorn the lapels of wedding guests all over Europe, to grace the statues of saints in churches, to decorate the corpses of the freshly dead, and to fill out the bouquets of hopeful lovers.
The two assassins took Anica to a derelict greenhouse long abandoned because of the disease. El Chiquitin jabbed into her neck the submachine gun that her own father had sold to El Jararca, and marched her into the building while El Guacamayo got out from the capacious trunk of the Ford Falcon his comprehensive bag of tools. Because it was growing dark he also brought in a lantern for them to work by.

Chapter 49, Another Statistic
Louis de Bernieres
Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord
How many authors go thro that much research to explain the background setup of a scene, instead of just saying they drove down to an abandoned warehouse, so much explanation has been put into describing why it was abandoned, and can even be interpreted as a metaphor for what will take place there.

In Love and War

Where does it all begin? History has no beginnings, for everything that happens becomes the cause or pretext for what occurs afterwards, and this chain of cause and pretext stretches back to the palaeolithic age, when the first Cain of one tribe murdered the first Abel of another. all war is fratricide, and there is there-fore an infiniate chain of blame that winds its circuitous route back and forth across the path and under the feet of every people and every nation, so that a people who are the victims of one time become the victimisers a generation later, and newly liberated nations resort immediatly to the means of their former oppressors. The triple contagions of nationalism, utopianism and religious absolutism effervesce together into an acid that corrodes the moral metal of a race, and it shamelessly and even proudly performs deeds that it would deem vile if they were done by any other.

Chapter 50
Louis de Bernieres
Birds Without Wings