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Colonel Riggs is one of the military men leading the biological testing station through Europe, though his job also includes rescuing people who are still trying to live in the drowned cities. He's kind and jovial. Although he admits that their work of mapping the changing water and landmasses is somewhat futile, he speaks as though he truly believes that humans will someday recolonize the flooded cities. He doesn't experience the dreams and thus finds it very hard to understand or empathize with Beatrice, Kerans, and Dr. Bodkin when they choose to stay behind, or with Lieutenant Hardman when he disappears to head south. He insists that Strangeman be rewarded for draining the lagoon, as that was part of the government's plan for the next ten years.
Colonel Riggs Quotes in The Drowned World
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Chapter 4
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"Colonel, there isn't any other direction."
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Chapter 5
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Nor had he tried to follow up any of Bodkin's or Riggs' oblique remarks about the dreams and their danger, almost as if he had known that he would soon be sharing them, and accepted them as an inevitable element of his life...
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Chapter 13
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"Colonel, you've got to flood it again, laws or no laws. Have you been down in those streets; they're obscene and hideous! It's a nightmare world that's dead and finished, Strangeman's resurrecting a corpse!"
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Colonel Riggs Quotes in The Drowned World
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Chapter 4
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"Colonel, there isn't any other direction."
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Chapter 5
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Nor had he tried to follow up any of Bodkin's or Riggs' oblique remarks about the dreams and their danger, almost as if he had known that he would soon be sharing them, and accepted them as an inevitable element of his life...
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Chapter 13
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"Colonel, you've got to flood it again, laws or no laws. Have you been down in those streets; they're obscene and hideous! It's a nightmare world that's dead and finished, Strangeman's resurrecting a corpse!"
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