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"I never realized how much I was a body until I didn't have one, how deeply I was my conscious thought until it disappeared, and that I was nothing and nowhere and not. And then I was, and that was when I became afraid."

"Hope was what ailed me, and I had stretched out my hand so fast, I hadn't thought of anything else."

"She was ready for everything we'd talked about in the dark."

First lines | “MARLOWE HAD OFFERED me fifty dollars to stand out here in the freezing Chicago cold and do an augury, and like a damn greedy fool, I'd said yes. I'd computed the ideal time for the operation with Marlowe still on the telephone, flipping between my calculations on scratch paper and an ephemeris.”