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In the Orchard, the Swallows

by Peter Hobbs

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Sep 23, 2026 11:17PM

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“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

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“They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.”
― Sitting Bull

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“the gardener, an old sailor, made him a hammock and fixed it up for him in the branches of a weeping willow. And here for long hours he lay, hidden from anyone who might come to the vicarage, reading, reading passionately.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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“He looked like an angelic little boy who had been kicked out of his orphanage for failing to take part in group masturbation.”
― Charles Stevenson Wright, The Wig: A Mirror Image

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“Jackson?’ ‘Sir?’ ‘What’s a pundit?’ ‘I think it’s one of them Indian geezers, sir, as comes up and strangles you from behind.’ ‘Yes, that sounds very likely.”
― Desmond Cory, The Strange Attractor

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