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Quote #13
From that time on, human beings were one clan again, united by the fate the destroyers planned for all of them, for all living things; united by a circle of death that devoured people in cities twelve thousand miles away, victims who had never known these mesas, who had never seen the delicate colors of the rocks which boiled up their slaughter. (XXV.221)
Ceremony argues that the extreme dangers posed by atomic warfare make all the differences between clans and racial groups seem petty. We're all "united by a circle of death." In other words, we all need to stop squabbling and come together in order to defend ourselves.