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Leonora Carrington

“He eventually became an executive for a firm. This meant that he actually executed persons with showers of legal documents proving that they owed him quantities of money which they did not have. 'Firm' actually means the manufacture of useless objects which people are foolish enough to buy. The firmer the firm the more senseless talk is needed to prevent anyone noticing the unsafe structure of the business. Sometimes these firms actually sell nothing at all for a lot of money, like 'Life Insurance', a pretense that it is a soothing and useful event to have a violent and painful death.”

Leonora Carrington, The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
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The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington
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