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The People in the Castle: Selected Strange Stories

by Joan Aiken

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“What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

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“Reality had always been something of an unknown quantity to me.”
― Anna Kavan, Ice

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“I was the only man alive who knew time had begun again.”
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