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But it is not so strange, if you think about it. Treat a man like an anvil and he will long to hit back.
Defending Jacob
William Landay
Hyperborean (literally from the back of the north wind, in this context effectively Never-Never Land)
was loved by a great Maestro once,” she said. “He showed me angels. They used to come to our table in sunbeams. I swear. Angels in sunbeams. And I thought we’d live forever, and I’d learn all the secrets of the sea. But I let him lead me out of the sun. I let him persuade me the spirits didn’t matter. Only our will mattered, and if we willed pain, then that was wisdom. I lost myself in such a little time, Judith. Such a little time.”
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